Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

The 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.

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

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

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’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

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

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

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

My friends are my estate.

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

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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

True friends stab you in the front.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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

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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

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.

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.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I 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.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Friends are thieves of time.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

There 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.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

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

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

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.