There is no need like the lack of a friend.
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.
Friends Reunited have got a very strong brand, they've got a huge database and they've managed to make money, which is a conjuring act most of the internet operations we saw during 2000 weren't able to do. Friends Reunited has stood the test of time.
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
Make friends with other musicians. If you have a group of people who want to play bad enough, you'll be able to find a place to play. Opportunities do arise if you work hard enough.