What Are Friends For?

Friendship? Yes, please. - Charles Dickens

A fat purse never lacks friends. - Unknown

True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. - Bill Vaughan

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

A road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish Proverb

One does not make friends. One recognizes them. - Garth Henrichs

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A friend is one who has the same enemies you have. - Abraham Lincoln

In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips. - Salman Rushdie

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. - Corey Ford

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln

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 keep your friends is not to give them away. - Wilson Mizner

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau

You don't have to hold your stomach in for real friends. - Unknown

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. - Euripides

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

When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. - Mark Twain

He hasn't an enemy in the world, but all his friends hate him. - Unknown

Things change and friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. - Stephen Chbosky

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. - Joe Moore

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend. - Unknown

Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough. - French Proverb

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Portuguese Proverb

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

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

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

My best friend ran away with my wife. And let me tell you, I really miss him. - Henny Youngman

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate. - Katharine Hepburn

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. - Doug Larson

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. - St. Basil of Caesarea

My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs. - Steven Wright

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Moshe Dayan

Memory: The feeling that steals over one as he listens to a friend's original stories - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Good friends are like shock absorbers. They help you take the lumps and bumps on the road of life. - Frank Tyger

The older I grow, the more I realize that my mother is the best 'best friend' that I ever had. - Unknown

The drink and I have been friends for so long, it would be a pity for me to leave without one last kiss. - Turlough O'Carolan

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. - Robert Bloch

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

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer. - David Hallberg

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime. - Richard Bach

Treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. - Dwight L Moody

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure they think he is getting old. - Washington Irving

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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

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. - Albert Camus

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right. - Mark Twain

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

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it. - Patricia Fripp

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you. - Will Ferrell

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion, and a lot of laughter. That's really what fills my tank. - Anna Eshoo

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou