Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.
Mark TwainBetween friends there is no need of justice.
AristotleHowever rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWords are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William ShakespeareThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane AustenWishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
AristotleWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
AristotleA friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Maya AngelouFriendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
C. S. LewisBe slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
SocratesA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim MorrisonFriendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert HubbardYou can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Alan Alexander MilneNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance, they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David ThoreauDon't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert CamusAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar WildeFriendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad AliGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark TwainA single rose can be my garden... a single friend my world.
Leo BuscagliaThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki MurakamiThe greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. HumphreyI would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen KellerThe pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles DickensWe should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
AristotleMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake.
AristotleThe trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
Mark TwainA friend to all is a friend to none.
AristotleBooks, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonSweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington IrvingMy idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane AustenUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar WildeThe best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham LincolnIf 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 ZiglarIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil GibranAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.
BuddhaA good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheThe greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.
Hubert H. HumphreyThe glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world
AristotleFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar GracianThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas AquinasBusiness, you know, may bring money but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane AustenWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Herman HesseDon’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.
Paulo CoelhoShould a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
BuddhaI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen KellerPiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleThere are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler YeatsGod seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath TagoreDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinOne never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Herman HesseI don't know what I'd do without you guys.
Jane AustenA man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms, whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Francis BaconThe man in the street is always a stranger.
Mason CooleyFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleWe can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerLaughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward BeecherIt is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
ConfuciusIn the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.
W. Somerset MaughamDo 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.
George SantayanaA trusty comrade is always of use, and a chronicler still more so.
Arthur Conan DoyleAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoeA friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William BlakeAmbition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose BierceWhen your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark TwainIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardFor what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane AustenBe courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George WashingtonEverywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel he ends by having many acquaintances but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFaithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
ConfuciusLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen KellerIn poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.
AristotleIf 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.
Saint AugustineFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranIt is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter, yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.
Lord ByronTrust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend, and every foe.
Alexander PopeCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph AddisonEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaAn excellent man, he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
Oscar WildeEvery gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard BachYour friend is your needs answered.
Kahlil GibranLet there be no purpose in friendship, save the deepening of the spirit.
Kahlil GibranI learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl SandburgA puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh BillingsChampagne for my sham friends, real pain for my real friends.
Francis BaconThe most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya AngelouVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe man with a host of friends, who slaps on the back everybody he meets, is regarded as the friend of nobody.
AristotleDepth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath TagoreEach friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais NinI say that habit is but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
AristotleA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George WashingtonGeography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. KennedyThe best friend is the man who, in wishing me well, wishes it for my sake.
AristotleTrust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
EminemThis communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half.
AristotleLaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar WildeYou mistake me my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
Jane AustenNo woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander PopeHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuAlways give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger if in a lonely place.
TecumsehNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de BalzacI had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauFriendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel JohnsonThe worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis BaconA friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley, than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil GibranYou want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. TrumanThe poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord ByronIn every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison that he cannot trust a friend.
AeschylusCan miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
Richard BachThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauSo long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen KellerFor it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us, but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. MenckenI was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend -- I didn't bother with him.
George CarlinHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander PopeI admit I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
Phyllis DillerJesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Alan WattsSilence is a friend who will never betray.
ConfuciusOne cannot have too large a party.
Jane AustenThe real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Rabindranath TagoreCompliments win friends, honesty loses them.
Rabindranath TagoreEach time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Paulo CoelhoQuarrel? Nonsense, we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George EliotAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconThe Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry SeinfeldHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusHer own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions,
Jane AustenOur friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
Herman HesseMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleWhether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.
Drew BarrymoreFriendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonA true friend is one soul in two bodies.
AristotleI support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
Donald TrumpIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonThe dupe of friendship and the fool of love, have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do, and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William HazlittI'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
Taylor SwiftOur concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHave no friends not equal to yourself.
ConfuciusThere are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinFor somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
AeschylusI 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.
ConfuciusChristianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you, and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert HubbardFriendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleI got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends 'If you talk to her I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
Christina AguileraAbsence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose BierceMy friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Steven WrightWhen befriended remember it, when you befriend forget it.
Benjamin FranklinI have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he has all other goods.
AristotleI have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me, I've all but riches bodily.
William BlakeI don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark TwainI miss hanging out with my friends getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
Tiger WoodsNo matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward BeecherSo long as we love we serve, so long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable, and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis StevensonI see it all perfectly, there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren KierkegaardNo man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis StevensonSilence is a true friend who never betrays.
ConfuciusWe know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset MaughamKids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter it's not like whispering to your friend you've put it on a billboard that the whole world including your own kids someday can see.
Bill CosbyLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBe careful the environment you choose for it will shape you, be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement StonePrayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of AvilaA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. RockefellerA true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. GlasowWhenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. TrumanWe worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack ObamaSave a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another in case it doesn't rain.
Mae WestWhen you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson WellesI think that there's no doubt that as I see friends families children of gay couples who are thriving you know that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack ObamaEven the people I surround myself with... are wiser a little bit older than me where before all my boyfriends were younger.
Kim KardashianProsperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PlutarchThe waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis SingerYou can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. PeterTo avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack ObamaLaugh at your friends and if your friends are sore, So much the better you may laugh the more.
Henry Ward BeecherFriendships in general are suddenly contracted, and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph AddisonHe who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious whose vision impure and who is notoriously crooked is rapidly ruined.
ChanakyaA good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.
Hedy LamarrI thought the more famous I became the more friendships I would have but the opposite was true.
Alanis MorissetteIf there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson WellesWe make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward BeecherThe friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
Elbert HubbardFortune befriends the bold.
Emily DickinsonEvery man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses but not how many friends.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil, but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam BrownTime is the friend of the wonderful company the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren BuffettCeremony leads her bigots forth prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths on which eternal things depend can hardly find a single friend.
William CowperI owe much to my friends, but all things considered it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre GideEvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward BeecherI have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
Aristotle OnassisThere is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis BaconWhat are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends on things like space and time then when we finally overcome space and time we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space and all we have left is Here. Overcome time and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"
Richard BachDo not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you he may bring all your secrets to light.
ChanakyaA wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar GracianIt is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one, better to be without a friend than to befriend a rascal, better to be without a disciple than to have a stupid one, and better to be without a wife than to have a bad one.
ChanakyaMy marriage is on the rocks again yeah my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
Rodney DangerfieldI was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo PhilipsFriendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another, people are friends in spots.
George SantayanaA man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles DarwinWell you don't get to do things that other children get to do having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael JacksonI think you have to represent your city and your organization. Tracy's been a good friend of mine for a long long time and I look forward to him putting on a good show.
Kobe BryantBe careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement StoneYou show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Hillary ClintonWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca