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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

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

When 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.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

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.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

I 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.

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.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

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.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

June 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.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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

My friends, there are no friends.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.