I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.
Stephen Colbert

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
Knute Rockne

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
Michael Phelps

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
Arnold H. Glasow

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
Shia LaBeouf

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
Richard Pryor

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
Richard Pryor

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
Richard Pryor

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Gene Simmons

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot