The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel JohnsonHe who hath many friends hath none.
AristotleI 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.
Abraham LincolnPrayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
Joyce MeyerPlato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonI have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
Joe BidenLet there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil GibranIf 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 ObamaTo witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI 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 do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.
Adam SandlerA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckI have good friends who are politicians on both sides.
Dwayne JohnsonMy dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel JohnsonIf we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray BradburyIt pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret ThatcherOld friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
Dalai LamaSixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam SandlerI 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.
Oscar WildeIt’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
Keanu ReevesBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin FranklinIt is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich NietzscheA 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 NietzscheBut 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.
Thomas JeffersonIf 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 WoolfIt is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest HemingwayTeach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William ShakespeareFriendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave GrohlWe 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. BushDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinEach 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 WoolfI had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven WrightA friend to all is a friend to none.
AristotleWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleLove is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya AngelouTrust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander PopeWe loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan PoeSome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia WoolfThere 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!‘
Marilyn MonroeIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonMy lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
Matthew McConaugheyTo avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack ObamaNo woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander PopeI would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.
DJ KhaledThe word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy GrahamPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas JeffersonWhen a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis BaconA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George WashingtonAll you need is love.
John LennonI love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor SwiftA true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis BaconOne 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. MenckenThe 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. BushLove is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich NietzscheI love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.
Lady GagaAn injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Thomas Jefferson