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 BaconI 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.
E. M. ForsterHe 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 RumsfeldI 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.
Steve JobsOld 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 LamaFriendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireI 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 FiersteinI'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 CarlinFor 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 CarreyA 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.
ChanakyaIf we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI 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 MartinWithout 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 BaconFriendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson MiznerI 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.
Lord ByronThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HomerA sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HomerIf 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 GagaIn the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThey 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.
ChanakyaThe firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb ColtonI don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod, my shadow does that much better.
PlutarchEvery 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 MorissetteWhen the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
PlutarchConsider again and again the following: the right time the right friends the right place the right means of income the right ways of spending and from whom you derive your power.
ChanakyaO Man! Thou feeble tenant of an hour Debased by slavery or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust thy friendship all a cheat Thy smiles hypocrisy thy word deceit! By n
Lord ByronFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas