Friends

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship is a plant we must often water. - German Proverb

A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy. - African Saying

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. - Henry David Thoreau

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

A mother is a daughter's first best friend. - Unknown

The wastebasket is the writer's best friend. - Isaac B Singer

All your friends are gonna be green with envious. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend. - Jack McDevitt

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. - Abraham Lincoln

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. - Merry Browne

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. - Henry Kissinger

Many friends have been lost by jest, but few have been gained. - Unknown

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles C Colton

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Mumford

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. - Kristin Hannah

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it. - Dagobert D. Runes

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. - Linda Grayson

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. - Jennie Jerome Churchill

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D Rockefeller

Often we have no time for our friends, but all the time in the world for our enemies. - Billy Joel

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. - Ben Jonson

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel but not in the kitchen. - George Bernard Shaw

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead. - Voltaire

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. - Mark Twain

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. - Logan P Smith

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. - Thomas J. Watson Sr.

I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends! - Dr. Seuss

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - WC Fields

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault

If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. - C S Lewis