Books make the best ersatz friendships.
— Nenia Campbell
If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.
— Tarthang Tulku
At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
— V.S. Naipaul
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
— Daniel Nathans
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
— Maxwell Maltz
Good friends are divine instruments.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People say Seattle is one of the toughest cities in which to make friends. They even have a name for it, the 'Seattle freeze'.
— Maria Semple
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
— Vincent Van Gogh
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.
— Barry Manilow
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach
If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though. — Michel Ocelot
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. — Homer
I love hanging out with friends and family. — Ashley Wagner
I seriously have the best friends in the world. — Evelyn Smith
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc. — Francesca Woodman
So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs. — Hannah Kent
I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous. — Jessica Alba
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. — Horace
Friends are the best helpers. They come prepackaged with compassion and love. All they need is wisdom, and that is available to everyone. — Edward T. Welch
Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends. — Signe Baumane
God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers. — Davis Bunn
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I leave my parents here behindAnd all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
In order to have friends, you must first be one. — Elbert Hubbard
It's not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend. — John Paul Warren
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places. — Mark Twain
articles of agreement which were to bind these friends in a common partnership, whereby it was understood — George Randolph Chester
Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself. — Robert Black
Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot. — Julia Quinn
And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet. — Aaron Sorkin
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. — Thomas McDonell
Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn. — Evelyn Smith
Be my friends against the day I shall be on the brink of hell, as I was once before — Alain-Fournier
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Do you treat strangers as good as you do your friends or church family? (Acts 10:34) — Amanda Penland
Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs. — Henry Rollins
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends. — Walt Whitman
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves. — Jean De La Bruyere
He who learns from his enemies is as wiseas he who learns from his friends. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I'd found him, and he was mine - cute little bugger that he was, messed up glasses, funky shoes and all. — Elle Casey
A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen. — Steve Guttenberg
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection. — Amy Dickinson
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them. — Nicholas Ling
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well. — Gary Sheffield
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose your 'friends' wisely, There are some who would push you to the top, and then there are others who would keep pushing you on over the Cliff. — Andrea L'Artiste
You and I, we can be the best of friends, but don't expect to find your fairy tale under my roof. You got me? — J.M. Darhower
There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven't seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time. — Francine Prose
Best friends are the chicks who make your problems theirs so you guys can form a gangsta posse and beat those problems to hell. — Celia Kyle
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. — Kristin Hannah
A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public. — T.E. Lawrence
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best? — David Nicholls
A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri
Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends. — Robin Hobb
Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. — Lady Randolph Churchill
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live. — Spotted Tail
Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most. — Alyson Noel
Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy. — Roxane Gay
Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestones and moments where you tell your two best friends that you're about to have a child. — Christina Lauren
Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy. — Meagan Good
My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it's the best thing you can have in your life. — Cristiano Ronaldo
If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother? — Richelle E. Goodrich
You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
