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.
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.
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.
It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.
Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we meet, and all that--but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then--well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.
If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.
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.
Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.
I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph. D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Dog becomes a good friend with man whether the man himself is good or not!
Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.
We can be so much braver and bolder with a good friend by our side!
Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.