We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

We must accept or refuse one another as we are. I could tame a hyena more easily than my friend. He is a material which no tool of mine will work.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

We must take our friends as they are.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We need someone to believe in us - if we do well, we want our work commended, our faith corroborated. The individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on your good qualities, and does not look for your flaws, is your friend. Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is the one who recognizes the good in me.

We need to find god, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We never exchange more than three words with a friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,—his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,—fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with god.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

We were playing in front of 1,000 hollywood people and they were all the friends of the business. Hollywood is a very weird place

We were the first and dearest of your friends.

We were the twins of friendship.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.