Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.
~By James Stewart ~
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
~By Joan Crawford ~
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
~By Knute Rockne ~
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.
~By Marian McPartland ~
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
~By Euripides ~
I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
~By Anais Nin ~
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
~By Bill Maher ~
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
~By Joseph Parry ~
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
~By Peter Davison ~
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
~By Lauren Graham ~
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'
~By Rosario Dawson ~
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.
~By Douglass North ~
I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.
~By Adrian Mitchell ~
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
~By Carmen Sylva ~
I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.
~By Michael Lewis ~
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
~By Jane Austen ~
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
~By Robert Lynd ~
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
~By Ovid ~
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
Golf is my boyfriend right now.
~By Karrie Webb ~
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
~By Rachel Field ~
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.
~By Ekaterina Gordeeva ~
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
~By Doug Larson ~
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
~By Axel Munthe ~
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
~By George Eliot ~
We became good friends with Galactic as well.
~By Mike Lowry ~
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
~By Warren G. Harding ~
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
~By Douglas Horton ~
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
~By Jean Kerr ~
My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.
~By Albert Finney ~
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~By Petrarch ~
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
~By Dick Wolf ~
From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.
~By Peter Pace ~
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
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 ~
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
~By Emil Ludwig ~
I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
~By Joe Mays ~
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
~By Francis Quarles ~
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend.
~By Robert Goulet ~
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
~By George Stigler ~
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
~By Wallis Simpson ~
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 ~
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.
~By John Conyers ~
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.
~By Reba McEntire ~
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.
~By Ashley Olsen ~
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
~By Dan Fouts ~
With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'
~By David Schwimmer ~
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
~By Jacques Delille ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.
~By Andrea Jung ~
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.
~By Greg Louganis ~
Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
~By Layne Staley ~
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~By Socrates ~
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
~By William Shenstone ~
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
~By Lloyd Bentsen ~
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
~By Richard Widmark ~
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
~By Margaret Cho ~
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
~By Tecumseh ~
When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.
~By Prince William ~
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.
~By Benny Green ~
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
~By Edward Everett Hale ~
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
~By August Strindberg ~
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
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 ~
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