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

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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

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.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I’m very loyal.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

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.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

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.

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.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

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

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

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

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

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

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.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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.

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

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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?

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

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