Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
~By Maria Callas ~
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 ~
That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.
~By Michael McKean ~
The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.
~By Sarah Palin ~
I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them.
~By Megan Fox ~
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
~By Paula Abdul ~
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
~By Satish Kumar ~
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
~By Steven Wright ~
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
~By Donald Trump ~
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
~By William Powell ~
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 ~
Our friends, the enemy.
~By Pierre Jean de Beranger ~
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
~By Tacitus ~
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.
~By Debra Messing ~
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 ~
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~By Charles Peguy ~
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
~By Black Kettle ~
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
~By Roberta Williams ~
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
~By David Geffen ~
Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
~By Anna Held ~
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
~By Kate Moss ~
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
~By Lewis Tappan ~
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
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'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.
~By Michael Hutchence ~
I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
~By Megan Fox ~
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
~By Cornelia Otis Skinner ~
I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.
~By Paul McDonald ~
I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
~By Ziyi Zhang ~
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
~By Austin Farrer ~
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
~By George Canning ~
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~By John Evelyn ~
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 ~
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
~By Cher ~
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
~By Hu Shih ~
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
~By George Santayana ~
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
~By Joseph Parry ~
He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.
~By Don J. Manuel ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.
~By Sean William Scott ~
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
~By Homer ~
I have a lot of male friends.
~By Joan Collins ~
He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
~By Lauren Alaina ~
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
~By Jim Sasser ~
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 ~
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
~By Eric Roberts ~
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
~By Paulina Porizkova ~
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!
~By Grey DeLisle ~
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
~By M. Russell Ballard ~
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
~By Larry Niven ~
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~By Doris Lessing ~
A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
~By Randy Harrison ~
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great.
~By Paul Reiser ~
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
~By Ogden Nash ~
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
~By Chief Joseph ~
I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
~By Vera Brittain ~
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~By Athenaeus ~
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