A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Kurt Cobain

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde