Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

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.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

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.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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.

I 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.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

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.

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.

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.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

If 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?

No 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.

Do 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.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

True friends stab you in the front.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

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.

So 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?

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We’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.

My friends are my estate.

Old 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.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

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

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I’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.