Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

My 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.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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.

OVOXO will always be there.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

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

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

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

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.

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.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

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

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

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.

I was adored once too.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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

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.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

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.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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.

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?

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

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?

We 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.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I 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.

I like to look good, my friend.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working – when I first moved to Nashville – in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

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