A good friend is my nearest relation

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

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

He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too

I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

Often one’s dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole

Truth ever lovely – since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host

In after-life you may have friends – fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows

The happy man in this life needs friends.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Under the heavens and under the sea there’s a friend I don’t know, who holds the right key.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

I’m going back to my parrot head friends.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

I don’t like old friends talking to me like I’m a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I’m becoming two-dimensional.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won’t always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as ‘one of us’ making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe

When I joined Chelsea, I had to replace Petr Cech. I still talk to him today; he’s a friend

Take a shot, make a friend, just enjoy the moment. I’m Luke Skywalkin’ on these haters

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: “I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat

But where, says some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain

We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” Winnie-the-Pooh

But, of course, it isn’t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail “save the date” warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

We are the champions, my friends

And we’ll keep on fighting till the end

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.

a good friend stands in harm’s way for you the second you ask–but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend – or to keep one.

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

I don’t have that many friends, so I like to keep the ones that I really care for close to me.

Be a father first. Don’t put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

Never explain? Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends

Never explain?your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway

Zola has been a friend of mine since our days together at Dallas Theological Seminary, several decades ago. I rejoice that he suffers no more, but grieve for his family.

We’ll find out what we’re made of When we are called to help our friends in need

When our friends talk about you, all it does is just tear me down ‘Cause my heart breaks a little when I hear your name

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to melive in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me

Friendship cant end just because you change your life.

An old friend is a new house.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let’s face it.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation’s enemy.

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

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don’t even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so

A real friend or mentor isn’t on your payroll.

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

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

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Love your enemy. But don’t forget he is not your friend.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

My friends have made the story of my life.

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

If you become furious with every injustice, then you are my friend

I have this great test to see if a girl’s a real friend. When we’re shopping I’ll pick out an outfit that I know looks hot and one that is awful. If my friend says the bad one looks good, I know she’s not a good friend.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

To help a friend in need is easy, but giving him your time is not always opportune.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody.

If we would always recollect that we live among men who are imperfect, we should not be in such a fever when we find out our friend’s failings.

Be friendly to all, but make none your friends until they know you, and you know them.

I defeat my enemies when I make them my 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.

A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.

I’m nuts, baby, I’m mad. The craziest friend that you’ve ever had. You think I’m psycho, you think I’m gone. Tell the psychiatrist something is wrong. Over the bend, entirely bonkers. You like me best when I’m off my rocker. Tell you a secret, I’m not alarmed. So what if I’m crazy? The best people are crazy!

It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision – it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it

Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

It’s always good to marry your best friend.

If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

I’m gonna be your friend in high tide or in low tide

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it’s dark around you

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i’ll be here.

You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grining

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn’t have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry

A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they’ll still be there for you and act as if you’d never left!

My great friends are dead; I have no family, no clients, no fortune, nothing. So I can give myself totally to the Temple

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground

I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they’re Jews

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

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

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

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

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

To 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.

We 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.

No creature smarts so little as a fool

Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend

I am friends with Demi. Don’t believe anything you read.

Equals make the best friends.

False friends leave you in times of trouble

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.

It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered

One night, I prayed to God. I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you.

One best book is equal to a hundred good friends, but one good friend is equal to a library.

One of my friends once saw another guy’s (criminal) record and said, ‘Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.’ I had to tell him, ‘No, that’s my record—and it doesn’t include my juvenile history.

A man that is friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‘You’re Gaga’.