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.
ChanakyaIn order to have friends you must first be one.
Elbert HubbardA friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
Erma BombeckThe worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis BaconHe 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.
ChanakyaRejoicing in our joy not suffering over our suffering makes someone a friend.
Friedrich NietzscheI 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.
William BlakeLet your family staff and friends know that you're still the same person despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
Donald RumsfeldWhen I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Steven WrightOld 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.
Dalai LamaLovers 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.
Lord ByronI 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.
Barack ObamaFor how many things which for our own sake we should never do do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriendship 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?
Thomas JeffersonAlways admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
Harvey FiersteinWhen 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.
Henry MillerI'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.
George CarlinGreatly his foes he dreads but more his friends, he hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Winston ChurchillFor 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.
Jim CarreyIt is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
EpicurusFalse 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.
Christian Nestell BoveeA 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.
ChanakyaAs life runs on the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change Neath every one a friend.
James Russell LowellNuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Francis BaconAll my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.
Joan RiversI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul CezanneI 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.
John BurroughsTrue 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.
Joseph AddisonFriendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.
Francis BaconOf what shall a man be proud if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis StevensonA man's friendships are like his will invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel ButlerOffspring friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
ChanakyaNor be what man should ever be / The friend of Beauty in distress?
Lord ByronOutside books we avoid colorful characters.
Mason CooleyPersonally I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband I figure she'll fool me.
Orson WellesSon brother father lover friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor HugoThe 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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI really miss a lot of my friends out there.
Tiger WoodsEvery murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha ChristieTo want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone WeilFor 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.
Simone WeilIn criticism I will be bold and as sternly absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan PoeThere 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.
Edgar Allan PoeI'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
Richard DawkinsI have found that a friend may profess yet deceive.
Lord ByronIf 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.
Samuel JohnsonI 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.
Frank SinatraGreat souls by instinct to each other turn demand alliance and in friendship burn.
Joseph AddisonOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel HawthorneLife is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsThe death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
Joel OsteenIt is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph AddisonI 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.
Dave BarryAll theory dear friend is gray but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEven 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!
William HazlittOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFriends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur SchopenhauerDon'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.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt 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.
Pope John XXIIIBad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason CooleyI hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.
Tiger WoodsNever do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Robert E. LeeA friend is as it were a second self.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOld friendships are like meats served up repeatedly cold comfortless and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William HazlittMy friends! There are no friends.
AristotleA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckThe trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Ronald ReaganHe 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
AristotleAnimals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard ShawNothing 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.
Richard BachThe world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinProsperity is full of friends.
EuripidesI have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. EdisonDo not trouble yourself much to get new things whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauIt is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePyrrhus 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
Francis BaconI 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.
Charles R. SwindollChaos is a friend of mine.
Bob DylanThink twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
Marlene DietrichFriendship redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half
Francis BaconA friend who dies it's something of you who dies.
Gustave FlaubertHaving lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.
Kim KardashianTo be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.
William HazlittThankfully 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.
Christina AguileraAt 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.
Woodrow WilsonI 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.
Steve MartinMy dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad coach mentor soldier husband and friend.
Tiger WoodsFriendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel ButlerDo 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!
Sai BabaIn 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.
Winston ChurchillWithout 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.
Francis BaconOld wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconYOUR 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.
Sai BabaI 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.
P. J. O'RourkeThe best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson MiznerI'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.
Andy WarholIf 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.
Lady GagaEvery friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton FriedmanOver the last couple of years I've really worked toward balancing my life out more having a little bit more time with friends family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside so be it.
Alanis MorissetteI asked my girlfriend 'Will you marry me?' She said 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says 'Hello!'
Emo PhilipsWhy is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell