Friend Quotes

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

I'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.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.