#friend

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats. ↗

— Kid Rock

#become #before #cats #friends #good

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#friends #front #home #hosts #i

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#friends #golf #his #only #playing

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#alone #appears #face #feeling #friends

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. ↗

— Karl Rove

#back #before #campaigns #clients #consulting

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ↗

— Saadi

#enemy #enmity #excepting #friend #increases

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#just #just one #mom #sinatra

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#both #embraces #encircle #firmament #foe

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed