What Are Friends For?

Pork is my friend. - Tom Douglas

Old friends are best. - John Selden

Friendship? Yes, please. - Charles Dickens

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. - Unknown

Good friends, like wine, get better with age. - Unknown

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

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet. - Roberta Lieberman

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

e looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave. - Sid Waddell

You will always be my best friend - you know too much! - Unknown

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

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. - Henry Kissinger

We all have that one friend who needs to learn how to whisper. - Unknown

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

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing

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

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits

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

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain. - Fred Durst

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. - Miguel De Cervantes

Things change and friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. - Stephen Chbosky

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! - Colette

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

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. - Tom Hanks

Money can't buy you friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate. - Katharine Hepburn

We make our friends. We make our enemies. But God makes our next-door neighbour. - G K Chesterton

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

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. - Ben Jonson

Loyalty and friendship created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. - Ernie Banks

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Moshe Dayan

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

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty;
In time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

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

Sewing Circle: 1. Where friendship hangs by a thread; 2. A group of women who needle each other. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. - Hattie McDaniel

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

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." - Lauren Bacall

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Unknown

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had got into the wrong grave. - American Proverb

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

Dear Diamond,
We all know who is really a girl's best friend.
Yours sincerely,
Chocolate Cake - Unknown

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer. - David Hallberg

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence Peter

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - WC Fields

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

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

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

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow

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

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe

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

Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - Anais Nin

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

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte