Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
Lewis Mumford

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
Aeschylus

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.
Britney Spears

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.
Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
Britney Spears

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Brigham Young