Friends

My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson

There is flattery in friendship. - William Shakespeare

A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish Proverb

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. - Michael Corleone

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. - Corey Ford

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. - Sallust

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

A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue. - Unknown

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. - Kahlil Gibran

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D Rockefeller

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. - Cher

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel but not in the kitchen. - George Bernard Shaw

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

We've been friends for so long I can't remember which one of us is the bad influence. - Unknown

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

Senescence begins
And middle-age ends,
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends. - Ogden Nash

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter ... It's the way friends make love to one another. - Annie Gottlieb

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. - Robert Bloch

I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends! - Dr. Seuss

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. - Arnold Bennett

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill you and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. - Steve Irwin

A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body - let me know if I ever need to bring a shovel. - Unknown

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. - C S Lewis

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

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light! - Edna St Vincent Millay

She's so fat she's my two best friends. She wears stretch caftans. She's got more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. - Joan Rivers

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. - Diogenes

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. - WC Fields

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou