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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Oct 1, 2025
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
True friends stab you in the front.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.