Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars

Speak no evil of an absent friend. (non male loquare absenti amico)

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.

Strangers are just friends i haven't met yet.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, i'd probably choose success.

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Take god for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Take god for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin, will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Thank you for the friendship you have offered; rest assured that i'll treasure it in my heart and will always remember that once in my life, i've known someone like you.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

That man travels the longest journey that undertakes it in search of a sincere friend.

That was the day i began cutting classes and returning to tv tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with johnny o, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

That's the cool part of the business, going to different countries with your friends and having everything paid for by the studios