The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

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.

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.

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.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

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

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

My friends, there are no friends.

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.

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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

OVOXO will always be there.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

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.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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?

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I’ve been such a big fan of his acting.

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.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

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.

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I like surprises.

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.

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.