Good Friend famous quotes
04-17-2025
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One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
-- Abdul Kalam -
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
-- Adam Rich -
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by...
-- Adriana Trigiani -
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.
-- Ai Yazawa -
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.
-- Ali MacGraw -
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
-- Ali Smith -
[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.
-- Amy Grant -
A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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.
-- Anna Held -
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
-- Anthony Collins -
What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
-- Anthony LaPaglia -
Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.
-- Apolo Ohno -
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
-- Aristotle -
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.
-- Armistead Maupin -
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.
-- Art Buchwald -
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
-- Audrina Patridge -
We've made mistakes, But we've made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can't come true? Tonight's another chance to start again. It's just another New Year's Eve, Another night like all the rest.
-- Barry Manilow -
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.
-- Beryl Markham -
I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.
-- Beryl Markham -
A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
-- Betty White -
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it - highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.
-- Bob Dylan -
I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.
-- Bob Keeshan -
The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
-- Bob Marley -
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
-- Bobby Seale -
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
-- Brené Brown -
The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.
-- Brian Houston -
The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
-- Brian Houston -
A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.
-- Brian P. Cleary -
A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.
-- Brigid Schulte -
Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
-- Burt Reynolds -
I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.
-- C. Thomas Howell -
I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
-- Calista Flockhart -
AND THEN SOME... these three little words are the secret to success. People that follow this are thoughtful of others; considerate and kind...and then some. They are good friends and neighbors...and then some. I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world a better place. Their spirit of service is summed up in these three little words...AND THEN SOME.
-- Carl Holmes -
All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.
-- Carlos P. Romulo -
I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
No. Absolutely not.†“Simon,†she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.†“The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?†“Yes.†“No,†he said. “No, it isn’t.†Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.†“This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.†“Simon—†Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there
-- Cat Stevens -
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
-- Charles Dickens -
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.'
-- Chelsea Handler -
Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.
-- Chet Atkins -
With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
-- Chevy Chase -
You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love...
-- Christa Wolf -
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
-- Clarence Darrow -
I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.
-- Clay Aiken -
I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.
-- Colin Farrell -
Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.
-- Corey Koskie -
I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.
-- Cory Lidle -
Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.
-- Cynthia Voigt -
Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Don't we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be... doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.
-- Daniel Pearce -
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
-- Danila Kozlovsky -
When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
-- Darren Criss -
All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.
-- David Morrissey -
My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do!
-- Dean Haglund -
If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?
-- Diane Chamberlain -
You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’†He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,†Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.
-- Diane Duane -
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
-- Dick Schaap -
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
-- Diego Rivera -
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
-- Diogenes -
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
-- Diogenes -
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
-- Donovan Bailey -
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
-- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. -
A good friend of mine once told me that each morning when you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week from now or a month from now - just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!
-- Drew Brees -
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.
-- E. Lockhart -
It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'
-- Ed Sheeran -
It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.
-- Elizabeth Perkins -
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.
-- Ellen Gilchrist -
I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.
-- Emma Roberts -
My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.
-- Eric Massa -
My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.
-- Ernest Hollings -
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.
-- Esther Earl -
To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.
-- Frances Farmer -
We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.
-- Frank Carlucci -
for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.
-- Fredrika Bremer -
It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
-- George S. Clason -
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.
-- Gertrude Jekyll -
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
-- Glenn Ford -
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
-- Goran Ivanisevic -
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
-- Greta Garbo -
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'
-- Groucho Marx -
I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.
-- Hal Sutton -
Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.
-- Hank Williams, Jr. -
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.
-- Harlan Ellison -
I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on.
-- Harry Styles
