| "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." »Chinese Proverb |
| "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 |
| "The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'" »Shusha Guppy |
| "Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend." »Saadi |
| "A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer." »Amanda Grier |
| "Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." »Bible |
| "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." »Homer |
| "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way." »Edgar Albert Guest |
| "A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." »Thomas Fuller |
| "A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you." »Doris Wild Helmering |
| "If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "A friend in power is a friend lost." »Henry Adams |
| "Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all." »Sir Walter Raleigh |
| "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar." »Robert Brault |
| "A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling." »Arthur Brisbane |
| "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." »Henri Nouwen |
| "A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." »Unknown |
| "There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self." »Francis Bacon |
| "One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend." »Geoffrey F. Albert |
| "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." »Buddha |
| "A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." »B. A. Billingsly |
| "A friend is, as it were, a second self." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "My friend is one... who take me for what I am." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A friend is a second self." »Aristotle |
| "You never really know someone until you have been their friend." »Walker Best |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
