A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
Dave Matthews

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar Chavez

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop

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

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

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

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.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

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

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

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson

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

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides