A Quote by Eustache Deschamps

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Eustache Deschamps

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Friends Make Relatives Yourself

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Eustache Deschamps
French - Poet
1346 - 1406

Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

Texas Bix Bender

Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.

Ronald Reagan

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

Paul McCartney

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

Taylor Swift

If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

Alanna Knight

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

Michael Milken

Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.

Mireille Mathieu

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Queen Latifah

The Sellout is about friends and relatives who have touched me in real ways.

Paul Beatty

Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.

Jamie Farr

When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Jean Chatzky

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.