It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
Aristotle Onassis

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
Andrew Jackson

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
Steven Spielberg

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim Carrey

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini