I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

As 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.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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

I 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.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

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

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.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I 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.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

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.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

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.

I 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.

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.

There 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.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Your friend is your needs answered.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.