friendship quotes

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best 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.

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?

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

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

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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.

I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

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

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

I like to look good, my friend.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

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

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

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.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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

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

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.