Friend Quotes

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

~ River Phoenix

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

~ George Canning

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

~ Christopher Hitchens

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

~ Oswald Chambers

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

~ Mark Mckinnon

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

~ Eric Maskin

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

~ John Wooden

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

~ Peter Capaldi

I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world.

~ Steve Carell

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

~ Katy Perry

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

~ Joseph Joubert

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

~ Aeschylus

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

~ Alexander Pope

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

~ C. Z. Guest

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

~ Emo Philips

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

~ Maysoon Zayid

Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue.

~ Ruby Rose

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

~ Steven Wright

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

~ Harry S Truman

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

~ Jack Johnson

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

~ Thomas Fuller

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

~ Len Wein

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

~ William Penn

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

~ Anaïs Nin

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

~ Herodotus

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

~ King Solomon

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Your friend is your needs answered.

~ Khalil Gibran

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

~ Euripides

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

~ Robert E. Lee

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

~ Taylor Swift

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

~ Aimee Teegarden

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

~ Robert Hall

Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.

~ Carole King

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

~ Henry Adams

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

~ Henry David Thoreau

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

~ Joseph Brodsky