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

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.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

Bad men are full of repentance.

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.

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

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.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

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

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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

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

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 two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don’t mind laughing at it before you guys do.

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

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

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

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?

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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

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.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

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

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

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.

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

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.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

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.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

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.