In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Aeschylus

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus

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

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

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

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
Christopher Marlowe

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay