
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Jane Austen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

Marlene Dietrich
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

John Lennon
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Oscar Wilde
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Haruki Murakami
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

William Shakespeare
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Virginia Woolf
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

C. S. Lewis
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Sylvia Plath
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

David Byrne
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Henry Van Dyke
Be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.
Bil Keane
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

J. K. Rowling
I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

Thomas Hardy
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
Steven Spielberg
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

David Sedaris
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Steven Spielberg
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Mahatma Gandhi
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Neil Gaiman
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Cornelia Funke
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Ayn Rand
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

Amy Sedaris
I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

W. H. Auden
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Paulo Coelho
Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

John Lennon
I get by with a little help from my friends.

David Byrne
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
Roseanne Barr
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

Madeleine Albright
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Victor Hugo
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

Thor Heyerdahl
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Roseanne Barr
I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff.

Harper Lee
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Allen Ginsberg
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Neil Gaiman
Libraries are our friends.

Audrey Hepburn
True friends are families which you can select.

Amy Sedaris
David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Stephen King
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Marilyn Manson
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Dan Brown
Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Kurt Cobain
Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Emily Dickinson
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Jeanette Winterson
Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

Shel Silverstein
I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

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

Confucius
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

Charles Bukowski
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
![Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[Said on his deathbed]](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/ludwig-van-beethoven-33298.jpg)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [Said on his deathbed]

A. A. Milne
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

Ali ibn Abi Talib
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Hillary Clinton
What 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Robert Greene
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

B. R. Ambedkar
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Hillary Clinton
When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

Anne Sexton
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Edward Everett Hale
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Jack Kerouac
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

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

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Sidney Sheldon
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

Donald Trump
I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Tom Waits
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

John Lennon
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Hillary Clinton
You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

David Byrne
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

Bernie Sanders
Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

Harvey Milk
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
Barbra Streisand
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

W B Yeats
There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.

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

Benjamin Lincoln
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

John Lennon
I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Philip Larkin
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

Henry Rollins
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.