I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. – Zig Ziglar
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. – Steven Van Zandt
Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS, either; it can be devastating. – Teri Garr
The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously. – Twinkle Khanna
Chris Martin’s a good friend of mine. I’m actually Apple’s godfather. He’s an old friend and we’ve been mates for quite a few years now. – Simon Pegg
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. – William E. Gladstone
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while. – Tom Lehrer
I’ve had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, ‘The Boy Friend,’ directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in ‘My One And Only’ with Tommy Tune, so I’ve always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more. – Twiggy
When I was nine years old I use to copy – not trace – the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. – William Jackson
Peter is an old friend. I’m heartbroken, but he’s also a tough guy. I’m counting on him getting through this very difficult passage. – Tom Brokaw
I’m not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. – Shirley Booth
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession. – Sophocles
My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood. – Tom Douglas
Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices. – Tasha Smith
My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. – Steven Wright
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of ‘dilemma’ is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear. – Yair Lapid
Oh my goodness, I’m in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I’m too old to play his love interest. They’d probably cast me as his grandmomma’s friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing. – Sherri Shepherd
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend. – Susan Orlean