Top 616 Friend Quotes

You don’t have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don’t disclose it to your friend.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan’s nuclear policy.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Integrity of life is fame’s best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

I am no friend of the modern so-called ‘black metal’ culture. It is a tasteless, lowbrow parody of Norwegian black metal circa 1991-92, and if it was up to me, it would meet its dishonorable end as soon as possible.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.

My mother’s death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, ‘Ah, he can play.’ And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling ‘turn it down!’

The first lesson I’ve learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms – I mean, what works for you doesn’t necessarily work for your friend.

I didn’t want to be the lead guy. That’s too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy’s friend. I’d have days off, and still get a paycheck every week.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

‘Anarchy’ was more of a tribute album to my friend Peep.

It’s nice to have a safe place to have a conversation going; whether it’s a friend or family member, you can use ‘Queer Eye’ as an entry point to have a conversation that’s meaningful.

A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, ‘The Dentist.’ I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

I’ve had the honor and privilege of knowing Jeff for over 25 years. He’s been a dear friend and a mentor, and there is no finer person in public service than Jeff Sessions. He’s conducted himself with the greatest integrity of any public official I’ve ever met.

Before borrowing money from a friend it’s best to decide which you need most.

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the ’70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I had a couple of different workouts I’d do. One routine was 250 shots. I’d try to get a friend rebound for me. I’d count them.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It’s scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener’s black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.

She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called ‘Minor Miracles’ by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into ‘Here in Spirit.’

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called ‘True Friend’.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

I got caught doing graffiti with my friend in broad daylight once.

I was riding pillion on my friend’s motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You’ve been with me on every road I’ve taken. My scar and my protection.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it’s something to have a healthy awareness of.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told ‘Texas’ Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang ‘My Mother’s Eyes,’ and she was knocked out.