When I was a small boy growing up in kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like honus wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be president of the united states. Neither of us got our wish.

When i'm on my deathbed, i'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

When i'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'are your friends having sex yet?'

When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

"A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first."

When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence, and has increased our respect for the resources of god who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal; when he has, moreover, become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom,—it is a sign to us that his office is closing, and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.

When my brother-in-law, bill clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! Then how sweet it is to die!

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

When one marries, he/she is making the commitment to put their spouse before all other family and friends.

When other friendships have been forgot, ours will still be hot.

When paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

When ted williams was here, inducted into the hall of fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, i'm proud to be in this company that way.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' so with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

"A real friend is a person who, when you've made a fool of yourself, lets you forget it."