Our actual friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

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.

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in florida are not stars.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our friends see the best in us, and by that very fact call forth the best from us.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendships.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and i wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perhaps our irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Plant the garden of your life with friendship’s lovely flowers.

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and i are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Pop doyle: may you rot in hell, j.p. J.p.: when i’m dead and gone, you’ll know what a friend i was. Kayo: why don’t you drop dead now so we can test your theory?

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with god.