Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
~By Eubie Blake ~
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
~By Pythagoras ~
But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.
~By Sophia Bush ~
I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.
~By Drea De Matteo ~
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
~By Moliere ~
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
~By Alice Duer Miller ~
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
~By George W. Bush ~
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
~By Joseph Addison ~
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
~By Paulina Porizkova ~
That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
~By George Eliot ~
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
~By Voltaire ~
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
~By David Gallagher ~
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
~By Erica Jong ~
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
~By Britney Spears ~
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
~By Jami Gertz ~
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~By Charles Peguy ~
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.
~By Billy Bush ~
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
~By Harrison Ford ~
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~By William Hazlitt ~
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
~By Herodotus ~
A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
~By Emma Thompson ~
I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.
~By Michael Irvin ~
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.
~By Sean Astin ~
I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.
~By Josh Duhamel ~
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
~By William Hurt ~
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
~By George MacDonald ~
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
~By Jackie Collins ~
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
~By Venus Williams ~
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
~By Randy Harrison ~
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
~By Boy George ~
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
Your wealth is where your friends are.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
~By Eric Heiden ~
We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
~By Sarah Palin ~
He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.
~By Katie Holmes ~
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
~By Alexa Vega ~
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
~By Douglas Horton ~
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
~By W. H. Auden ~
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
~By Penelope Cruz ~
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
~By Ed Harris ~
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
~By James Joyce ~
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
~By Jack Irons ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.
~By Taye Diggs ~
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
~By Bobby Flay ~
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By James Boswell ~
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.
~By Sylvia Sidney ~
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
~By Herman Melville ~
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
~By Martin Gore ~
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
~By Judd Nelson ~
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
~By Vince Vaughn ~
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
~By Fred Frith ~
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
~By Carmen Sylva ~
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
~By F. M. Cornford ~
I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.
~By James Denton ~
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
~By Gordon Smith ~
With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.
~By Michael Rosenbaum ~
I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
~By Maria Sharapova ~
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
~By Eustace Budgell ~
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
To your friends house the trip is never long.
~By J. Wallace Day ~
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