friendship quotes

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.

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.

My friends are my estate.

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.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

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

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

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.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

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.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

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.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Friends are thieves of time.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

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.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

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.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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

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.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

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

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?