Friends Quotes

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Old friends are best.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

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.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Prosperity is full of friends.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

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.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

You can't eat your friends and have them too

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

No nation has friends only interests.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

How to Win Friends and Influence People.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

True friends stab you in the front.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

I am wealthy in my friends.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

My friends, there are no friends.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.