My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another
In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.
One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.
I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.
One of my friends at the Compound has a photographic memory. Everything she ever sees, reads, or hears, she remembers forever in perfect detail.
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?
They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.
One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.
All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.
