Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~By Sallust ~
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.
~By Travis Barker ~
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
~By Charles M. Allen ~
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
~By Martin Denny ~
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
~By Ben Hogan ~
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
~By Josh Hartnett ~
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 ~
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.
~By Teena Marie ~
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
~By Blake Lively ~
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
~By John Frusciante ~
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 ~
I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
~By Aristotle Onassis ~
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
~By Thomas Hood ~
I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.
~By Christopher Darden ~
I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.
~By Jeremy London ~
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
~By Connie Willis ~
I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
~By Steven Tyler ~
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
~By Jason Biggs ~
There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.
~By Stephen Colbert ~
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
~By Thom Gunn ~
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
~By Glenn Ford ~
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
~By Saint Basil ~
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 ~
Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
~By Richard Widmark ~
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
~By Snoop Dogg ~
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 ~
I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
~By Marc Jacobs ~
I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.
~By Amanda Holden ~
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
~By Jennie Churchill ~
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 ~
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.
~By Stephen Collins ~
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
~By Wayne Newton ~
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
~By Richard Pryor ~
When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.
~By Stephen Collins ~
We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.
~By Timothy Bottoms ~
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've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By James Boswell ~
That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.
~By Drew Carey ~
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
~By Gene Simmons ~
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
~By Christopher Knight ~
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.
~By David E. Price ~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~By Charles Peguy ~
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
~By Finley Peter Dunne ~
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 ~
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
~By Mark Warner ~
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
~By Boris Johnson ~
First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.
~By Julius Rosenberg ~
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
~By Max Jacob ~
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 ~
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
~By Anthony LaPaglia ~
I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.
~By Sophia Bush ~
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
~By Eric Roberts ~
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
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 ~
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~By Jesse Owens ~
Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
~By Robert McChesney ~
The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
~By Wilt Chamberlain ~
I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.
~By Timothy Hutton ~
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
~By Demosthenes ~
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
~By John Mayall ~
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 ~
I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
~By John Oates ~
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
~By Eddie Murray ~
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