"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul, I cried. My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
- William Butler Yeats
"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
- Aesop
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship ..."
- Richard Burton
"Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille
"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
- Mike Tyson
"Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't."
- William C. Deitz
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
- Cicero
"For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a ..."
- John Frusciante
"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
- Eschylus
"Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems."
- Michael Jay Tucker
"Friends [...] are God's apology for relations."
- Hugh Kingsmill Lunn
"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
- Margaret Walker
"Friends are angels following you through life"
- Melissa
"Friends are God's ways of apologizing for our families."
- Anonymous
"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try"
- Claude Mermet
"Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."
- Eustache Deschamps
"Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies - never."
- Mason Cooley
"Friends are the sunshine of life."
- John Hay
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
- Ed Cunningham
"Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies."
- Charlie Krueger
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is."
- George Santayana
"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
- Euripides
"Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'd to his taste, inviting him abroad – Can he want occupation who has these?"
- William Cowper
"Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them."
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. "
- Francis Bacon
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
- Thomas Fuller
"Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins."
- Henry Louis Mencken
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.""
- Oliver Goldsmith
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
- Truman Capote
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. "
- Mortimer J. Adler
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots."
- George Santayana
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. "
- Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.""
- Clive Staples
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
- Jane Austen
"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love . . ."
- William Shakespeare