A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome

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

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.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.
Jay-Z

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Friedrich Schiller

We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
Samuel Rutherford

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
Marlene Dietrich

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'
David Spade

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
Ace Frehley

Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Arthur Helps

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

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
Mark Hoppus

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

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.
Sophia Bush