I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ~By Arthur Wellesley ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. ~By Voltaire ~
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. ~By Rita Coolidge ~
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ~By William Penn ~
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 ~
I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend. ~By Josh Duhamel ~
I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are. ~By Joan Van Ark ~
My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks. ~By Robin Tunney ~
Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time. ~By Klaus Schulze ~
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. ~By Aeschylus ~
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. ~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ~By Ovid ~
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. ~By Jena Malone ~
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ~By Henry Walter Bates ~
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. ~By Beau Bridges ~
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! ~By Shirley Manson ~
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. ~By Hermann Hesse ~
Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language. ~By Albert Brooks ~
I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast. ~By Boris Kodjoe ~
He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. ~By H. G. Bohn ~
I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though! ~By Natasha Henstridge ~
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk. ~By Judith Guest ~
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike. ~By Natalie Portman ~
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. ~By Ricardo Montalban ~
Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that. ~By Roger Clemens ~
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind. ~By Tom Selleck ~
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends. ~By Steve Nash ~
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. ~By Robert De Niro ~
I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you. ~By Gary Coleman ~
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends. ~By Winona Ryder ~
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ~By Dennis Prager ~
I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid. ~By Sophia Bush ~
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you. ~By Natalie Portman ~
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 ~
We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia. ~By Li Peng ~
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. ~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Chris and I care about each other and we're still friends. Tom is the most incredible man in the world. ~By Katie Holmes ~
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. ~By Billy Strayhorn ~
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly. ~By Publilius Syrus ~
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun. ~By Eric Roberts ~
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. ~By Chanakya ~
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. ~By Syd Barrett ~
The shameful never have dear friends. ~By Isaac de Benserade ~
You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way. ~By Dave Obey ~
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ~By Katharine Hepburn ~
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ~By Augustine Birrell ~
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ~By Joseph Joubert ~
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television. ~By Chris Burke ~
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. ~By Chris Ware ~
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ~By St. Jerome ~
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ~By Joseph Conrad ~
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working. ~By Jim Henson ~
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. ~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
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 ~
He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans. ~By Joseph Jackson ~
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 ~
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?' ~By George Clooney ~
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. ~By John Conyers ~
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part. ~By Orlando Bloom ~
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. ~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. ~By Virgil Thomson ~
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. ~By Caleb Carr ~
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country. ~By Dick Gregory ~
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 ~
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books. ~By Norman MacCaig ~
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 ~
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world. ~By Al Sharpton ~
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. ~By Jose Saramago ~
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. ~By St. Jerome ~
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? ~By Hugh Laurie ~
I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me. ~By Ziyi Zhang ~
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business. ~By Ernie Banks ~
We became good friends with Galactic as well. ~By Mike Lowry ~
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. ~By Samuel Butler ~
I have no friends and I never leave my house. ~By Megan Fox ~
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. ~By Anatole Broyard ~
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 ~
I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement. ~By Anna Harrison ~
I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue. ~By Peter Brimelow ~
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! ~By Sitting Bull ~
I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone. ~By Jeremy Northam ~
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. ~By Alan Dundes ~
Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone. ~By William Joyce ~
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ~By Ernie Pyle ~
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. ~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. ~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend. ~By Chris A. Bridges ~
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ~By Lloyd Alexander ~
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ~By Peter Ustinov ~
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
A boy's best friend is his mother. ~By Joseph Stefano ~
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting. ~By Akshay Kumar ~
Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. ~By Mason Cooley ~
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