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.
Haruki MurakamiPeace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas JeffersonSo 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?
Tom BradyWhen the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
Lou HoltzAlas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William ShakespeareI’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin HartAny man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
Mr. TRemember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.
Erma BombeckLet 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.
Charles SpurgeonI don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.
Anthony HopkinsNever make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
ChanakyaI 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 McConaugheyOVOXO will always be there.
The WeekndThere is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
ChanakyaMy friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan QuayleDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinIf I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.
Elon MuskThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheFor years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma BombeckMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
AristotleLove is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich NietzscheNo 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 AlbrightI 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.
Alice WalkerDo your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.
Abby Lee MillerWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
AristotleOnly enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingTrue 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.
Joseph AddisonIn 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.
Cristiano RonaldoI’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.
Adam SandlerFor how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles BukowskiThe world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.
Lando NorrisI became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
Taylor SwiftWhen I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.
Elon MuskEach 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.
Virginia WoolfNo one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
PlatoMy 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.
Ray BradburyIt 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 HubbardFriendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor RooseveltLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeI would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.
DJ KhaledWives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Francis BaconDo I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham LincolnEros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. LewisSilence is a true friend who never betrays.
ConfuciusMy 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.
Mark ZuckerbergA friend to all is a friend to none.
AristotleA false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin FranklinLet 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.
John F. KennedyThe things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
Abraham LincolnWe 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.
George W. BushFriendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad AliI’ve laid my friends bare.
J. K. RowlingA friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsWhat if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
Charles SpurgeonWe’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.
Joe Biden