What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

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

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.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

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 be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Your friend is your needs answered.

All you need is love.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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

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

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Life is short, the art long.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Death is a fearful thing.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

My friends are my estate.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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