Friends Quotations

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting,

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

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

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

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.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with on 'Austin & Ally;' the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I'm so happy they're in my life!

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

I make most of my friends through my extracurricular activities.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.