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Friendship Quotes
"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."
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"My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people."
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
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"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
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"I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are."
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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
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"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."
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"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want."
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."
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"If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered."
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"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."
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"Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back."
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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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"I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart."
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
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"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends."
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"If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject."
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"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
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"Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."
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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
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"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."
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"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
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"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
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"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."
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
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"Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for."
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"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."
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"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."
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"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
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"But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends."
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"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."
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"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"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."
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball."
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"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."
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