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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

John Owen

Theologian · English

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Erma Bombeck

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Theophile Gautier

Poet · French · 1811 – 1872

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

Writer · Roman

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Franz Grillparzer

Poet · Austrian · 1791 – 1872

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

Author · American · 1924 – 1998

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Homer

Poet · Greek

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

Shel Silverstein

Poet · American · 1930 – 1999

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

Charles Kingsley

Clergyman · English · 1819 – 1875

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Norman MacCaig

Poet · Scottish · 1910 – 1996

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Statesman · Nigerian · b. 1937

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Francis Parker Yockey

Writer · American · 1917 – 1960

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Ovid

Poet

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

Solomon Ortiz

Politician · American · b. 1937

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert

Novelist · French · 1821 – 1880

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

Martin Scorsese

Director · American · b. 1942

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.

Henry B. Adams

Historian · 1838 – 1918

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

Writer · Roman

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Aphra Behn

Dramatist · English · d. 1689

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler

Philosopher · American · 1902 – 2001

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

Kurt Loder

Journalist · American · b. 1945

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

Dick Schaap

Journalist · American · 1934 – 2001

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Businessman · American · 1902 – 2002

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

Lewis Mumford

Sociologist · American · 1895 – 1990

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Al Sharpton

Politician · American · b. 1954

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Webster

Playwright · English

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

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.

Henry Miller

Author · American · 1891 – 1980

Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family.

Michael N. Castle

Politician · American · b. 1939

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Critic · American · 1865 – 1946

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Poet · American

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

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Diogenes

Philosopher · Greek

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francis Quarles

Poet · English · 1592 – 1644

There 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 Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

Barbara Kruger

Artist · American

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Ugo Betti

Playwright · Italian · 1892 – 1953

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Writer · Roman

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

George Weinberg

Psychologist · American

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Author · American

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

Bill Vaughan

Journalist · American · 1915 – 1977

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

E. M. Forster

Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Diplomat · French · 1754 – 1838

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Charles Eastman

Author · Sioux · 1858 – 1939

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Anna Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1895 – 1982

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