friendship quotes

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

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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.

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.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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.

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

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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?

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.

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.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

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

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

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.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

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.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

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

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

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

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.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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.

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.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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 love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

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

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

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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

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.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

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

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

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

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

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