Friends Quotes by Remy Ma, James McBride, Thomas Jefferson, Questlove, Yolanda Hadid, Louisa May Alcott and many others.
I’m kinda secretive, and I can’t even say secretive because of my son. He’s the type, like, he doesn’t let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn’t like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he’s, like, dying. He’s very low-key with it. He’s always been like that since he was born.
My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, “Come as you are.”
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
I don’t have friends, and it’s hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It’s a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
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.
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Ones oldest friend is the best.
I like friends as I like music – when I am in the mood.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That’s what skateboarding really is.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
I’m surrounded by great friends and family. I don’t know what I would do without them.
I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
I grew up in a loving family, but I essentially grew up alone. I had no friends for a while.
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
I had no interest in sports so I didn’t make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.
It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
Fate chooses your relations,
you choose your friends.
you choose your friends.
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
It does not mean you’re broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don’t hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it’s available, go to a therapist.
Kids really don’t care about what their friends look like.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money.
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition – even to close family, friends or co-workers – because there’s still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.
One thing I didn’t understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn’t buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn’t know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.
We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
I have to get out of the habit of jumping into relationships with new friends before I really get to know them.
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It’d be best if we can communicate often.
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
I learned you can’t trust the judgment of good friends.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don’t.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander – a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
‘Friday’ is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.
In Shaquille’s mind, I think I’m always going to be his wife even though that’s not the case. The love is always there and he’s one of my best friends. We have a great time together and our kids love us just being a family.
The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it’s as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other… maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.
You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.
When I’m with my friends’ teenage children, I always say, ‘Are your friends having sex yet?’
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
I need physics more than friends.
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
My biggest support and backbone have been my friends.
I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
I’m honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals.
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
Never expect too much from a friend and you will never want for one.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.
Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
I’ve kind of become used to making new friends.
Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can’t control that.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
My friends, there are no friends.
Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.
I remember being four or five, not understanding how to be funny, so just going around the house and my mum and dad’s friends, confusing adults by saying weird things.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience. There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
I’ve had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don’t know what I would do.
My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you’re a lucky man.’
I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don’t want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.
There’s always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
I don’t necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don’t know if it’s for me. I haven’t come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I’m not sure it would be that way for me.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend.
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend.
Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.
We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
I’ve always really just liked football, and I’ve always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
Whatever meaning ‘Annie’s Song’ had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.
I’ve had lots of parts in movies that I’ve never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I’m not calling my friends and saying, ‘I couldn’t be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.’
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
Friends accept you the way you are.
God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
I’m friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.
I don’t sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that’s different.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up
My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.
But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
I’m terrified to get married. I’m not getting married till my gay friends can.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Well, you know, certain – for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn’t defend myself.
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps – they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.
If you’re going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I’ve never met, new friends.
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
That’s the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don’t have to explain it.
Sometimes even my old friends are against me. But it’s important to face your opposition and hear them out.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don’t have to worry about anything ever again.
I’ve always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years – and now again because of what happened – and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The best time to make friends is
before you need them.
before you need them.
I’m lucky that I’ve never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you – the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends – those are the people you should listen to.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
I was always making new friends, then losing them.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn’t bother me.
If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
I was fired from an NBC sitcom called ‘Friends With Benefits.’ I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn’t even want to audition, and kept thinking, ‘This isn’t funny at all.’
I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we’d bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.
Whether I’m a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn’t change, whether I’m with adults or with my friends.
There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed ‘Conversations with Friends’ who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people’s labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really!
That’s politics. After six o’clock, we can be friends, but before six, it’s politics.
When friends asked me, Can we help? I’d say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
I’ve been through so much, especially coming from New Orleans where there was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I had to pick up. We had to move, make new friends, and I think my family was just strong for me as well because we had to start completely over again.
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
For me, playing a chubby or fat superhero was so special because I would go and watch these movies with my friends and would never see anyone like me. I am excited to be that for other kids who look like me.
I love travelling; going to different parts of the world and making new friends is something that I really enjoy.
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I’m a cruise convert.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you – that’s been hard to deal with.
When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
Father,
you died once,
salted down at fifty-nine,
packed down like a big snow angel,
wasn’t that enough?
you died once,
salted down at fifty-nine,
packed down like a big snow angel,
wasn’t that enough?
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Whether it’s with my engineers in the team, my home life, or my friends, I don’t like things to get complicated – and one good example would be the steering wheel in my Mercedes Formula 1 car.
I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.
A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning – or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.
It’s funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
An older guy, he’s going to show you things that a young man can’t show you. He’s going to show you how to stay alive. He’s going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I’m saying?
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.
I’m the hardest working person I know. I’m 20 years old – is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
To be honest, I am a really simple person, and most of my friends are not from the industry. I am most comfortable with them. They don’t treat me as an actor, and neither would they tolerate me behaving like one.
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
Cyberbullying isn’t real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They’ve got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.
A friend is a second self.
We get so caught up in doing everything for ourselves, including inspiring ourselves, that it’s exhausting and not at all useful. Take a look around you. Look at your friends. Open up to your friends and take in the caring and good intentions they hold toward you.
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.
They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, ‘Wow, you’re still friends with your ex, man? Really? That’s weird.’ I don’t play that.
I’m happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that’s the one thing I’m sure about.
To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don’t find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
I’m not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word’s meaning, or multiple meanings.
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune’s gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
My friends would always joke that I’m ‘the grandmother’ and ‘the homebody’ because I can’t stay up past nine o’clock, but a lot of that rest is so important for me.
I’m a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I’m not that eccentric in real life – and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people’s faces.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
The first time I ever heard Airborne Toxic Event, my friend was turning 11 or something. And he had a paintball birthday party where him and me and two of our other friends went out to these paintball courses and I got obliterated. I don’t think I got one hit.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
I have suffered most of the things I write about – or my friends have.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
I’m thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing ‘The King of Marvin Gardens.’
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
I’d rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you’ is a greeting, not a question.
As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port–heaven,–
Friend, what years could us divide?
Bound unto the same port–heaven,–
Friend, what years could us divide?
A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
I don’t have no friends. I don’t want no friends. That’s how I feel.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.
Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it’s just another normal.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn’t, but I thought: ‘What the hell?’ So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.
We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship’s firm laws obey.
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
In comradeship is danger countered best.
I have friends who don’t even know I’m diabetic. I don’t hide it, but it’s the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That’s how I deal with it.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one’s inmost self.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you’ll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this ‘won’t power.’
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful–wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.
I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one. Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.
Every aspect of your life, whether it’s a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.
