Friend Quotes

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

~ Victor Robert Lee

A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the respect of his crew. To eliminate a sworn enemy requires little more than opportunity, luck and the willingness to pull a trigger. But to end the life of someone once considered close, regardless of any previous betrayal, requires a determination that few men possess.

~ Lorenzo Carcaterra

One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.

~ Harold Hobbs

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend

~ Colin Higgins

Be the type of friend you would like to have.

~ Steve Maraboli

-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Such a profound occurrence, when the priorities of those in our lives shine so brightly a path away from who we once thought they were. This light sears insights onto us and helps us along our way. I wonder at times if my old friend hope is my only. She is a relentless presence who will never cease to be--a lone wanderer meeting me time and time again along this road.

~ Christopher Hawke

Of course I remember you. My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.

~ Tahereh Mafi

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

~ Dan Wells

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

~ Mark Driscoll

I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always there for me. She was there before my whole world came crashing down, she was there after, and she would be there ‘til they laid us both in the ground, side by side with matching tombstones that read best on one, and friends on the other—yeah it was morbid that we had this all planned out, but that was just us.

~ Amanda Stone

My secret friend,Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend,So we can swim forever.

~ İamx

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is sympathy - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Don’t shout my friend, no one gives you the shit unless you make them.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?

~ Jayne Bauling

And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Popular culture has made it okay to yell I want a man! from the rooftops, so why are we still embarrassed to say, I want a best friend?

~ Rachel Bertsche

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

~ Douglas Jerrod

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

~ Hiroko Sakai

My greatest friend is truth.

~ Beth Fantaskey

Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.

~ Hiroko Sakai

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

~ Charles Lamb

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

~ Somi Ekhasomhi

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

~ Maya Angelou

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

~ Mark Mccormack

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

~ Carl Icahn

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

~ John Boyle O'reilly

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

~ Drake

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

~ Orlando Bloom

To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.

~ Josh Hopkins

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

~ Wavy Gravy

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

~ Max Frisch

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

~ Douglas Macarthur

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

~ John F. Kennedy

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

~ Ryan Gosling

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

~ Markus Zusak