Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
Robert Duvall

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Leon Uris

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Thor Heyerdahl

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
Marc Jacobs

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
Elton John

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
Josef Albers

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
Megan Fox

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Ramakrishna