What Are Friends For?

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. - Leo Robin

He makes no friend who never made a foe. - Alfred Tennyson

Beware of your friends, not your enemies. - Yiddish Proverb

Friendship is a plant we must often water. - German Proverb

My friends have made the story of my life. - Helen Keller

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy. - African Saying

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin

Flatterers looks like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. - Joseph Addison

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

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

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. - C S Lewis

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. - Groucho Marx

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do. - John C Collins

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

Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better. - Ed Howe

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. - Maya Angelou

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. - Aristotle

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - J. Churton Collins

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point. - Jack Falahee

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. - Saint Francis de Sales

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

I met so many people. I don't even know some of my friends' names. - Paris Hilton

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. - George Macdonald

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. - Linda Grayson

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

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction. - Mark Twain

It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. (Friend or Money!) - Unknown

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joseph Joubert

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. - Oscar Wilde

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. - Dominic Monaghan

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

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead. - Voltaire

Tart words make no friends: A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. - Benjamin Franklin

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor

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

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The older I grow, the more I realize that my mother is the best 'best friend' that I ever had. - Unknown

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

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

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. - Sy Montgomery

If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt

Nobody sees a flower, really - it is so small - we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - Georgia O'Keefe

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying "flee at once - all is discovered." They all left town immediately. - Mark Twain

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound. - Unknown

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison

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

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion, and a lot of laughter. That's really what fills my tank. - Anna Eshoo