Friend Quotes

You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend.

~ Donald Driver

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

~ Warren Buffett

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

~ Robert Southey

She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.

~ Ashley Olsen

My brother is my best friend.

~ Erinn Smart

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

~ Boris Karloff

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

~ Hilarie Burton

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

~ Fred Durst

I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

~ Annie Parisse

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

~ Elyn Saks

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

~ Jessi Colter

I've learned that I am allowed to say what I like and what I don't like. And I've learned that I have to be professional and not be everyone's best friend.

~ Bobbi Brown

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

~ Katharine Butler Hathaway

South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

~ Tariq Ramadan

I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.

~ Ava Duvernay

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

~ Dwight L. Moody

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

~ Richard Branson

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

~ Jim Sasser

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

~ Steve Guttenberg

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

~ Prince

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

~ Frances Farmer

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

~ Tracey Emin

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

~ Simon Sinek

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

~ George R. R. Martin

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

~ Homer

Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.

~ David Perlmutter

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

~ Isaac Newton

Boldness be my friend.

~ William Shakespeare

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

~ Regina Brett

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

~ Stacy Schiff

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

~ Homer

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

~ Homer

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

~ Donald Cargill

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

~ Samuel Johnson

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

~ Julianna Margulies

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

~ Susan Orlean

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

~ Erma Bombeck

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

~ Stella Young

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

~ Andrei Codrescu