I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven WrightI never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl LagerfeldI cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
Nelson MandelaHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusBo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.
Ray BradburyDeceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar WildeWhen you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
EminemI love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor SwiftGo up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich NietzscheRemember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
EminemLet there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil GibranIf one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia WoolfFriends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David ThoreauA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLove sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William ShakespeareTrust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Christopher HitchensAs a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
Stephen HawkingThe telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia WoolfThere is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Marilyn MonroeI have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
Matthew McConaugheyBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeI think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Madeleine AlbrightTreat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
ChanakyaIf you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles BukowskiIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardThe men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. BushIf people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.
Michelle ObamaA friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
DiogenesMy friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
Joel OsteenThere are no rules when it comes to love.
Taylor SwiftI have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
Alexander Graham BellIf you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
Lady GagaYou can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert EinsteinScience arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinI don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. TolkienIf all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalJune Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice WalkerThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauSixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam SandlerI remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn MonroeLove is an interesting thing.
Lady GagaI’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.
Marilyn MonroeLove is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas CarlyleOVOXO will always be there.
The WeekndNo matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
Matthew McConaugheyThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan PoeFriendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
Albert CamusI can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
Ariana GrandeHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander PopeI respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.
DrakeI 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.
Haruki MurakamiI was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
Madeleine AlbrightWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleWhen you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.
Kevin HartOne of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H. L. MenckenI like to look good, my friend.
Conor McGregorI always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.
Angelina Jolie