It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
David Hume

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Aristophanes

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White

Jesse is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson

I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed.
Nikos Kazantzakis