One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Aristophanes

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha Christie

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

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
Joe E. Lewis

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
Joe E. Lewis

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
Chevy Chase

If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
Chevy Chase

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

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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph Addison

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

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

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Grantland Rice

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.
Leonard Nimoy