"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. "
- Arnold H. Glasow
"Between friends there is no need of justice. "
- Aristotle
"Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go."
- Thomas S. Monson
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."
- Albert Camus
"Friends applaud, the Comedy is over."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
- Eustace Budgell
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
- Aristotle
"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. "
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
- Socrates, Greek philosopher
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
- La Rochefoucauld
"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."
- Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an ..."
- Chin-Ning Chu
"If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. "
- Benjamin Franklin
"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end."
- John Webster
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
- Mark Twain
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
- Oscar Wilde
"Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice."
- Anonymous
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake"
- Aristotle
"Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
- Robert Southey
"No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."
- Groucho Marx
"One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim."
- George Carlin
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
- George Eliot
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."
- H. Jackson Brown
"Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly."
- Solon
"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."
- Francesco Petrarca
"The best part of life is when your family becomes your friends, and your friends become your family."
- Danica Whitfield
"The friendship isn't worth the tears unless the friend is."
- Kellina Filbin
"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest when all is dark."
- Robert Crowell
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
- William Penn
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends."
- W.B. Yeats
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. "
- Jennie Jerome Churchill
"True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope
"Unless you make allowances for your friends' foibles, you betray your own."
- Publilius Syrus
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."
- Evelyn Waugh