I thought the more famous I became the more friendships I would have but the opposite was true.

To this day some of my closest friends say 'Gaga you know everything's great. You're a singer, your dreams have come true.' But still when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next door neighbour.

There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.

The friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money it is all profit it completes our education founds and fosters our friendships and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional, while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses but not how many friends.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil, but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company the enemy of the mediocre.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths on which eternal things depend can hardly find a single friend.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

I owe much to my friends, but all things considered it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Health is the first benefit. Content is the fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends on things like space and time then when we finally overcome space and time we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space and all we have left is Here. Overcome time and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you he may bring all your secrets to light.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

I've never had a divorce but I've seen so many of my friends my sister my family go through that stuff so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow so I'm able to kind of express it or their joy.

It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one, better to be without a friend than to befriend a rascal, better to be without a disciple than to have a stupid one, and better to be without a wife than to have a bad one.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received, it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

My marriage is on the rocks again yeah my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another, people are friends in spots.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Well you don't get to do things that other children get to do having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

I think you have to represent your city and your organization. Tracy's been a good friend of mine for a long long time and I look forward to him putting on a good show.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

People abuse their own friends and family but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years scold them. By the time they turn sixteen treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

In order to have friends you must first be one.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends his wife his servants and his relations, yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

Rejoicing in our joy not suffering over our suffering makes someone a friend.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.

Let your family staff and friends know that you're still the same person despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Old friends pass away new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies but they never can be friends because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers our sisters our children our cousins our friends our co-workers and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

For how many things which for our own sake we should never do do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I'm having fun because I don't take it (life) seriously - the only things I care about are my family friends work and my lady Sally. Philosophers for a long time have said 'why are we here?' - I'm here for the entertainment. If you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freak show, if you're born in America you get a front row seat.

Greatly his foes he dreads but more his friends, he hurts me most who lavishly commends.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along and then finally I did this zany thing and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

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.

A man's descent may be discerned by his conduct, his country by his pronunciation of language, his friendship by his warmth and glow, and his capacity to eat by his body.

If you want peace you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

As life runs on the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change Neath every one a friend.

Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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.

Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.

Of what shall a man be proud if he is not proud of his friends?

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

A man's friendships are like his will invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Offspring friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Nor be what man should ever be / The friend of Beauty in distress?

Outside books we avoid colorful characters.

There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

Personally I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband I figure she'll fool me.

Son brother father lover friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Fondle a son until he is five years of age and use the stick for another ten years but when he has attained his sixteenth year treat him as a friend.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

In criticism I will be bold and as sternly absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

I have found that a friend may profess yet deceive.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man sir should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life a man who had good friends fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that actually.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn demand alliance and in friendship burn.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.

Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic against any opponent. People know this and steer clear of me at parties. Often as a sign of their great respect they don't even invite me.

All theory dear friend is gray but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly cold comfortless and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

My friends! There are no friends.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions, their reasons are always different.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy, whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Nothing happens by chance my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing and such a meaning behind this. Part for you part for me may not see it all real clear right now but we will before long.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends, this surely is not what Jesus meant.

Prosperity is full of friends.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

Two friends two bodies with one soul inspired.

Pyrrhus when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius but with great slaughter of his own side said to them "Yes, but if we have such another victory we are undone

Change like sunshine can be a friend or a foe a blessing or a curse a dawn or a dusk.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends, that's the good stuff in life.

Friendship redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half

A friend who dies it's something of you who dies.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.

Thankfully I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

If all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in the world.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed a mere doctrine but it is He Himself we have.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

My mother never breast fed me she told me she only liked me as a friend.

Yesterday has deceived you and gone, Tomorrow is a doubtful visitor. Today is a fast friend Sai Baba

At every crisis in one's life it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

In misfortune which friend remains a friend?

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before or else estrange them.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Friendship may and often does grow into love but love never subsides into friendship.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and with every boyfriend I plan out my wedding in my head.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad coach mentor soldier husband and friend.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy, profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Our friends don't see our faults or conceal them or soften them.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree you are lovers, and when it is over anything but friends.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

If one could be friendly with women what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

You have friends Paullus just like your pictures and vases all antique originals

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when in middle school and junior high I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world or the sun pours forth impartially his beams so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

I am a great friend of public amusements - they keep people from vice.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends, we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Recently there has been a lot of controversy between the countries and I would hope that now the two countries could put all that behind them and start to build on what really has been a great friendship

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Love is your life your friend your relative your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart the poison of evil will have no place in it.

I went through my first big breakup with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers and it was my first love and his.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I have had and may have still a thousand friends as they are called in life who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world /not much remembered when the ball is over.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Opposition is true friendship.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Never injure a friend even in jest.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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.

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now, but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote but they don't want you to know their plan.

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No but I want a regular banana later so... yeah.'

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

I no doubt deserved my enemies but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting loving friendships I have made.

My friends there are no friends.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it, those who have fear it.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time while I am still in good health with my family my friends and also with myself.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Learning is a friend on the journey, a wife in the house, medicine in sickness, and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more, and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend but he grieveth the less.

You look for Tracy and you make sure you take care of him. Tracy has been a good friend of mine for a long long time and I look forward to him putting on a good show.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

To help a friend in need is easy but to give him your time is not always opportune.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power they bid you good-bye.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Be true to your work your word and your friend.

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

When you're a little kid you don't see color and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends living like starving artists and wonder 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question 'Well what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

I maintain that if everyone knew what others said about him there would not be four friends in the world.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite and you do not know what it will bring back a new life a new friend a new love a new country.

Nothing shall I while sane compare with a friend.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is one grows out of people and the only thing is to face it.

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

Between friends frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable.

My friends are my estate.

I want to be distinguished from the rest, to tell the truth a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us except the very thing we wish them to do.

He who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.

I've been an important star and lived a full life yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him and to speak painful truth through loving words that is friendship.

If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are, and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them; they are so friendly, how can they be so suspicious; they are so suspicious, how can they be so friendly; but they just are.

The Snowball: How Warren Buffett Collected Friends Wisdom and Wealth.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us, our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

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.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel you would call them not friends but opponents.

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.

But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.

Its is Truth and Truth alone that is one's real friend relative.

I think it was very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could not he keep on quarrelling with you as his father did before him?

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

What sweetness is left in life if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know be someone that nurtures and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes, be the bigger person.

I've laid my friends bare.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

He who hath many friends hath none.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Friends who drag one away into evil habits and vicious deeds are prowling around in search of victims.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love like being enlivened with champagne.

They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.

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.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

The correction of silence is what kills, when you know you have transgressed and your friend says nothing and avoids your eye.

The essence of childhood of course is play which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Friendship like credit is highest when it is not used.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation, his friends his pleasures patrons and acquaintances are his capital.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Whoever comes to you friend or foe thief or robber let them be received with kindness.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod, my shadow does that much better.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.