2,345 quotes
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.
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.
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