Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is the mother of truth.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

He who hath many friends hath none.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.