Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

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

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
William Glasser

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Rita Rudner

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca