Friend Quotes

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

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

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

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.