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 BaconToo few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
AeschylusI 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 JobsWhen 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 LamaFriendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireLovers 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 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 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 CarreyPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas JeffersonIt 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.
ChanakyaIf you want peace you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Desmond TutuAs 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 own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas JeffersonI 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 BurroughsIf we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTrue 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 StevensonWe 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.
George W. BushA 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 CooleyThere is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin LutherPersonally 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 ChristieFondle 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.
ChanakyaTo 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 AddisonLife is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsIt 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 HolmesBad 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 WoodsFriendship 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.
John WoodenNever 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 ReaganFriends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions, their reasons are always different.
George SantayanaHe 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 ChardinHe who loves his enemies betrays his friends, this surely is not what Jesus meant.
William BlakeProsperity 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 GoetheOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
Simone de BeauvoirTwo friends two bodies with one soul inspired.
HomerPyrrhus 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 BaconChange like sunshine can be a friend or a foe a blessing or a curse a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur WardFew friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason CooleyI 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 KardashianAnd say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler YeatsTo 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 AguileraIf all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalA good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas FullerA 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.
Dwight L. MoodyIt is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WhiteMy mother never breast fed me she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Rodney DangerfieldYesterday 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.
Woodrow WilsonIn misfortune which friend remains a friend?
EuripidesThose that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis BaconTrue friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HomerIt 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.
Gilbert ParkerI never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas JeffersonFriendship may and often does grow into love but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord ByronI 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 MartinFriendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlinI've always been the type to fall in love fast and with every boyfriend I plan out my wedding in my head.
Kim KardashianOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan SwiftMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusSweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell HolmesMy dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad coach mentor soldier husband and friend.
Tiger WoodsLook at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy, profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren BuffettI had a friend who was a clown. When he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven WrightFriendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel ButlerIt is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude SteinOur friends don't see our faults or conceal them or soften them.
Joseph AddisonA mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree you are lovers, and when it is over anything but friends.
Lord ByronThink where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler YeatsIf 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?
Virginia WoolfHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou have friends Paullus just like your pictures and vases all antique originals
Marcus AureliusMy 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.
Taylor SwiftAs freely as the firmament embraces the world or the sun pours forth impartially his beams so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Friedrich SchillerI am a great friend of public amusements - they keep people from vice.
Samuel JohnsonBefore the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude SteinLove demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean NathanTrue friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb ColtonRecently 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
Woody AllenOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EuripidesLove 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.
Sai BabaI 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.
Christina AguileraWhenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor HugoI 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.
Lord ByronThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis StevensonOpposition is true friendship.
William BlakeI like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
William HazlittNuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis BaconNever injure a friend even in jest.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauLet 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.
John F. KennedyDo 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 BabaOur 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.
Barack ObamaMy friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No but I want a regular banana later so... yeah.'
Mitch HedbergThere'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?
Will SmithI no doubt deserved my enemies but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt WhitmanIn 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 ChurchillNever idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo BuscagliaI 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.
E. M. ForsterMy friends there are no friends.
Coco ChanelTo have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it, those who have fear it.
HoraceI 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.
Nelson MandelaFriendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
AristotleLearning is a friend on the journey, a wife in the house, medicine in sickness, and religious merit is the only friend after death.
ChanakyaWithout 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 BaconYou 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.
Kobe BryantOld 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 ColtonTo help a friend in need is easy but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Charlie ChaplinThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauPeople 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.
Jim MorrisonA 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.
Robert HallOne's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George SantayanaYOUR 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 BabaWhoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
SophoclesWe'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.
Orson WellesTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonWhen 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.
EminemI 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 WarholI maintain that if everyone knew what others said about him there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalThrow 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.
Anais NinNothing shall I while sane compare with a friend.
HomerIt'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.
W. Somerset MaughamNo person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice WalkerBetween friends frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
ConfuciusNowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
OvidLife has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EuripidesLove 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.
Bruce LeeMy friends are my estate.
Emily DickinsonI want to be distinguished from the rest, to tell the truth a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MoliereOur friends are generally ready to do everything for us except the very thing we wish them to do.
William HazlittHe who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.
ChanakyaI'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.
Hedy LamarrRemember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Marilyn MansonIt's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene DietrichPeace commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
Thomas JeffersonI want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint AugustineIt 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.
Henry Ward BeecherIf you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph AddisonThere is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
ChanakyaI 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 ByronAmericans 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.
Gertrude SteinThe Snowball: How Warren Buffett Collected Friends Wisdom and Wealth.
Warren BuffettWe 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.
Jean PaulFriendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HomerDo 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.
William HazlittThe bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
William BlakeThe 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.
Hillary ClintonFriendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph AddisonA sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HomerIf you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel you would call them not friends but opponents.
AeschylusYou 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.
William Butler YeatsBut friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIts is Truth and Truth alone that is one's real friend relative.
Sai BabaI 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?
Jane AustenYour friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard BachA friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert HubbardWhat 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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriendship is one mind in two bodies.
MenciusIf 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 GagaI've laid my friends bare.
J. K. RowlingMy 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.
Ray BradburyHe who hath many friends hath none.
AristotleIn the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas FullerFriends who drag one away into evil habits and vicious deeds are prowling around in search of victims.
Sai BabaOdd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Pam BrownThe feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel JohnsonThey 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.
ChanakyaOne 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.
EuripidesA true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe correction of silence is what kills, when you know you have transgressed and your friend says nothing and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis StevensonThe essence of childhood of course is play which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill CosbyWhen you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset MaughamFriendship like credit is highest when it is not used.
Elbert HubbardStaying 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.
P. J. O'RourkeWhen a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis BaconI 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.
Christina AguileraThe firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb ColtonWhoever comes to you friend or foe thief or robber let them be received with kindness.
Francis of AssisiFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
StendhalLove is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich NietzscheHe makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord TennysonI don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod, my shadow does that much better.
PlutarchThe 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.
George Bernard ShawBe true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John WoodenOver 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 MorissetteAnimals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George EliotThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure, ours has severest virtue for its basis and such a friendship ends not but with life.
Joseph AddisonBefore you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavor to understand him.
George SantayanaWhen the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
PlutarchI 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 PhilipsDeath is a friend of ours, and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis BaconWhat I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends allies around the world.
Hillary ClintonA decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HomerThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasures
Joseph AddisonIt is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
AeschylusConsult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOnly enemies speak the truth, friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingNever contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
ConfuciusMartyrs my friend have to choose between being forgotten mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Albert CamusConsider 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.
ChanakyaMan is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel ButlerIt is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott FitzgeraldFriendship with ones self is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor RooseveltThe path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WellsMarriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant of interest easy and where both meet happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship all the enjoyments of sense and reason and
Joseph AddisonAll you need to do to be my friend is like me.
Taylor SwiftYour friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
Elbert HubbardIt is always safe to learn even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct even our friends.
Charles Caleb ColtonI regard the Klan the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies as far as the Negro is concerned as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus GarveyI know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest HemingwayMy friends whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals a man fears everything, but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
AeschylusWhy is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand RussellA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy dear friend clear your mind of can't.
Samuel JohnsonFan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship, and pass the rosy wine.
Charles DickensPresident Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
Mitt RomneyFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas AquinasAre you astonished Aulus that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud
Marcus AureliusSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable, and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson