All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Charles de Gaulle

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine

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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe