Henry Adams Quotes
Sad Quotes by Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad,
like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone,
but never hustled.
- Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams

I have written too much history to have faith in it;
and if anyone thinks I'm wrong,
I am inclined to agree with him.
- Henry Adams

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
- Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
- Henry Adams

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus