Top 686 Friends Quotes

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you’re a lucky man.’

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I was fired from an NBC sitcom called ‘Friends With Benefits.’ I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn’t even want to audition, and kept thinking, ‘This isn’t funny at all.’

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.

I’d say I’m moody, I’d say I’m temperamental. But within my certain group of friends and family, I’m very open and outgoing and joke around a lot.

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection.

Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.

I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I’d go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on ‘Friends.’

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.

I greatly fear some of America’s greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

I’ve always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it’s family or friends or co-workers, I think it’s the most important thing. Whether you have success or don’t have it, whether you’re a good person is all that matters.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently – his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh – and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs – not only politics but poetry – was very important; he took it as a vocation.

I’ve had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don’t know what I would do.

Our family and friends keep us grounded and they are the reason we can all feel like normal people.

Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed ‘Conversations with Friends’ who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people’s labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really!

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

I’ve always really just liked football, and I’ve always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That’s why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

I’ve kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

I don’t have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing ‘The King of Marvin Gardens.’

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone – from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I feel really passionate now that talking with family, friends, or a counsellor is the way to deal with negative situations and difficult times.

Don’t try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don’t ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers… The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

I don’t mind it. My friends think it’s kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.

It’s weird to make new friends, but we’re three seasons in with ‘The Exes,’ and now it feels a lot like ‘Scrubs,’ where I’m very lucky because I get to work people like Wayne Knight, who I really like.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that’s left is terror and bloodshed.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it’s a big thing to be there as well.

Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.