friendship quotes

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

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

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

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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

OVOXO will always be there.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

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.

Your friend is your needs answered.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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

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.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

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

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

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