Friends

A fat purse never lacks friends. - Unknown

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot

A mother is a daughter's first best friend. - Unknown

A friend is one who has the same enemies you have. - Abraham Lincoln

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert H Humphrey

All my friends don't recognize me without a limp. - Kim Stewart

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. - Erma Bombeck

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend. - Jack McDevitt

A friend is someone who makes you feel totally acceptable. - Ene Riisna

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. - Merry Browne

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. - Elbert Hubbard

When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. - Mark Twain

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. - Benjamin Franklin

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. - Farmer's Almanac

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. - Ed Howe

A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find, lucky to have. - Unknown

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Portuguese Proverb

My best friend ran away with my wife. And let me tell you, I really miss him. - Henny Youngman

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. - John Wooden

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know. - Homer

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. - Juvenal

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. - Logan P Smith

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. - Plautus

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. - Mencius

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. - J K Rowling

Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship, mutual respect and enjoyment of each others' company. - John M Gottman

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime. - Richard Bach

Treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. - Dwight L Moody

Knowledge is a deadly friend when no one sets the rules;
The fate of all mankind I see is in the hand of fools. - King Crimson

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it. - Patricia Fripp