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

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

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.

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

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

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

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

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

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

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.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

If 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.

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.

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

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

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

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

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.

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

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

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

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

One 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.

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.

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.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

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

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

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

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?

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

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

OVOXO will always be there.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

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.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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.

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.