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“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ”
— Lord Byron
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. ”
— Lord Byron
“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. ”
— Lord Byron
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”
— Sophocles
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”
— Victor Hugo
“The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”
— Ovid
“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”
— Ovid
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.”
— Erno Rubik
“Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along. ”
— Drake
“When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”
— Eminem
“It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. ”
— Christina Aguilera
“I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.”
— Christina Aguilera
“I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.”
— Christina Aguilera
“Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on. ”
— Christina Aguilera
“We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.”
— George Washington Bush
“I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. ”
— Kurt Cobain
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