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

What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

What is commonly honored with the name of friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other’s presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.

"A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be."

What is love? Two souls and one flesh; friendship? Two bodies and one soul.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

What men call friendship is just an arrangement for mutual gain and an exchange of favors.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors—in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

What need we have any friends, if we should ne’er have need of ‘em? They were the most needless creatures living, if we should ne’er have use for ‘em.

What our republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine.

What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

"A good friend sees the first tear, catches the second and stops the third."

Whatever meaning 'annie's song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many

When a couple decide to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.