What Are Friends For?

I need physics more than friends. - J Robert Oppenheimer

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. - Aristotle

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

Beware of your friends, not your enemies. - Yiddish Proverb

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An open enemy is better than a false friend. - Greek Proverb

Good friends, like wine, get better with age. - Unknown

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

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

Flatterers looks like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. - Aristotle Onassis

Telepathy: Being too lazy to give your friends a call - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. - Joseph Addison

If you pity rogues you are no great friend to honest men. - Thomas Fuller

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces. - Mae West

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

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? - Steven Wright

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

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

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. - Groucho Marx

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do. - John C Collins

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas

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

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain. - Fred Durst

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. - Aristotle

A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend. - Robert J Vogel

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

It's easy to make a friend. What's hard is to make a stranger. - Unknown

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

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell

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

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

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

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

We make our friends. We make our enemies. But God makes our next-door neighbour. - G K Chesterton

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. - Aeschylus

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. - Unknown

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

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

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. (Friend or Money!) - Unknown

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

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

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know. - Homer

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh

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

Tart words make no friends: A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. - Benjamin Franklin

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. - Juvenal

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter ... It's the way friends make love to one another. - Annie Gottlieb

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. - J K Rowling

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

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

Do you think you're safe in a car with your seatbelt on? Dream on. My friend thought so. Now she's pregnant. - Anke Engelke

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence Peter

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

As we grow up we think we lose our friends. But the truth is that we don't lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are. - Unknown

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound. - Unknown

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. - Louis Orr

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going. - Alison Gopnik