Quotes on Friend

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Author: Edward Abbey

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

Author: Henry Adams

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Author: Joseph Addison

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Author: Aeschylus

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Author: Aesop

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

Author: Louisa Alcott

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Author: Louisa Alcott

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

Author: Namie Amuro

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Author: Aristophanes

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Author: Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Author: Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Author: Aristotle

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

Author: Peter Asher

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Author: Saint Augustine

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.

Author: Saint Augustine

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.

Author: Francis Bacon

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Author: Kevin Bacon

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

Author: William Banting

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Author: Anna Barbauld

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Author: Isaac Barrow

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Author: Lynda Barry

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.

Author: Jennifer Beals

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Author: Warren Beatty

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Author: Arnold Bennett

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Author: Lloyd Bentsen

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Author: Pierre Beranger

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Author: Edgar Bergen

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

Author: Ugo Betti

My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

Author: Jimmy Black

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Author: William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Author: William Blake

Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

Author: Tom Bodett

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

Author: H. Bohn

Few there are that will endure a true friend.

Author: H. Bohn

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

Author: Shirley Booth

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

Author: James Boswell

The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I guess you know you've made it when there's a porn parody of a movie you've done.

Author: Kate Bosworth

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Author: Christian Bovee

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Author: Marion Bradley

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Author: Nicholas Breton

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Author: Vera Brittain

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Author: Tom Brokaw

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Author: Pam Brown

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Author: Jackson Browne

An 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.

Author: Buddha

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Author: Warren Buffett

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Author: Robert Burns

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

Author: Leo Buscaglia

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Author: Samuel Butler

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Author: Lord Byron

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Author: Mark Caine

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Author: Albert Camus

Don'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.

Author: Albert Camus

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

Author: George Canning

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.

Author: Andreas Capellanus

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

Author: Donald Cargill

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

Author: Frank Carlucci

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

Author: Eric Carr

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Author: Diahann Carroll

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Author: Julian Casablancas

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Author: Oswald Chambers

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

Author: Chevy Chase

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

Author: Morris Chestnut

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Author: Agatha Christie

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Author: Marcus Cicero

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

Author: Beverly Cleary

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Author: Kate Clinton

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

Author: George Clooney

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Author: Kurt Cobain

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Author: Jessi Colter

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Author: Confucius

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

Author: Alistair Cooke

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

Author: Rob Corddry

As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

Author: Jim Costa

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Author: Jim Costa

Ceremony 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.

Author: William Cowper

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.

Author: George Crabbe

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Author: George Crabbe

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Author: Frank Crane

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Author: Frank Crane

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Author: Joan Crawford

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Author: Clarence Darrow

There's no better mirror than a friend's eye.

Author: J. Day

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

Author: Nigel Dennis

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Author: Norman Douglas

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Author: Bob Dylan

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Author: Charles Eastman

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Author: Ralph Emerson

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Author: Quintus Ennius

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Author: Quintus Ennius

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Author: Mike Epps

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

Author: Joseph Epstein

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

Author: Emilio Estevez

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Author: Euripides

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

Author: Euripides

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Author: Euripides

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

Author: Donald Evans

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Author: William Feather

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Author: Marsilio Ficino

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Author: Henry Fielding

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

Author: Gustave Flaubert

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

Author: Phil Foglio

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Author: Jean Fontaine

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Author: Jean Fontaine

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Author: Jean Fontaine

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

Author: Glenn Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Author: Henry Ford

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Author: E. Forster

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Author: Sam Foss

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Author: Connie Francis

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

Author: Cathy Freeman

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

Author: Glenn Frey

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

Author: Bruce Friedman

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Author: Milton Friedman

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Author: Thomas Fuller

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

Author: Thomas Fuller

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Author: Thomas Fuller

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Author: Thomas Fuller

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Author: Solomon Gabirol

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Author: Solomon Gabirol

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.

Author: Jennie Garth

I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Author: Theophile Gautier

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

Author: Theophile Gautier

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Author: John Gay

Your friend is your needs answered.

Author: Khalil Gibran

A 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?

Author: Khalil Gibran

What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him?

Author: William Gillette

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Author: William Gladstone

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Author: Arnold Glasow

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Author: William Glasser

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

Author: Jeff Goldblum

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Author: Maxim Gorky

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Author: Sheilah Graham