The final test for a novel will be our affection for it as it is the test of our friends and of anything else which we cannot define.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality directed towards God is known as devotion.

If you cry over a guy then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

The only sensible ends of literature are first the pleasurable toil of writing, second the gratification of one's family and friends, and lastly the solid cash.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted sexually oriented and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache, do be my enemy - for friendship's sake

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune, to keep him is a blessing.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover.

But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty a relative in difficulty a friend in adversity and a wife in misfortune.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy they always start by trying to become your friend.

I live with some of my best friends from high school very commune-like in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Friendship like the immortality of the soul is too good to be believed.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

(said of God):If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few!

Miami does not have a visitor-friendly airport. At Miami International a cramped and dingy labyrinth the message is: Just Try to Find Our Baggage Claim Area!

Mr. Van Buren your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

This is a fault common to all singers that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked, unasked they will never desist.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Choose friends who will stick to you till the end through thick and thin.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

There is little friendship in the world and least of all between equals.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

A wicked wife a false friend a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country I rate him nowhere.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error, to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action, to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga they said I was very theatrical and they said 'You're Gaga'.

Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

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

Eros will have naked bodies, Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship between equals flourishes service under a king is respectable it is good to be business-minded in public dealings and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil all over the world they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says 'Oh there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free and proud and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

In the modern world youth should know the nature of true love. Many from abroad mix with persons of the opposite sex calling them boy friend and girl friend. If you really love each other you must get married and not continue living as friends.

When friends asked me Can we help? I'd say Not unless you can alter time speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

But I believe in fair trade and I will tell you I have many many friends heading up corporations and people that do just business in China they say it's virtually impossible. It's very very hard to come into China. And yet we welcome them with open arms.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them, it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind spare to us our friends soften to us our enemies.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love and then for a few close friends and then for money.

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.

It is easy to say how we love new friends and what we think of them but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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 a flatterer.

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.

She was a sister-friend to me, we called each other 'children sisters.' She was a great wife, obviously, and a wonderful mother, and a great woman, a great American. When I think of great Americans, she's one of the people I think of.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Wealth a friend a wife and a kingdom may be regained, but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What happiness can we have at home in the company of a bad wife? How can renown be gained by instructing an unworthy disciple?

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

He was a great patriot a humanitarian a loyal friend, provided of course he really is dead.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

What I cannot love I overlook. Is that real friendship?

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

I come here tonight as a sister blessed with a brother who is my mentor my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course that was during his early low-budget art-house period.

Friends show their love in times of trouble not in happiness.

But whether it be dream or truth to do well is what matters. If it be truth for truth's sake. If not then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

Merely being an onlooker will not entitle you to approach Him and be in His Holy Company. Cultivate His Friendship or Kinship by the attitude of Love and dedicated Service.

I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion is Humility.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief, to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

There is a scarcity of friendship but not of friends.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Friendship is the expression of unshakable LOVE, LOVE that is noble, pure, free from desire or egoism.