Friend Quotes

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

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.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

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

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.