A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault
Make a friend when you don't need one.
Jamaican Proverb
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
Colleen Wainwright
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
John Adams
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend-and he's a priest.
Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Saint Jerome
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Henry David Thoreau
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.
Toni Morrison
My friend Nicole Richie is also engaged, so I'm in the bridal party for that one, too.
Nicky Hilton
A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
Christi Mary Warner
A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.
Sasha Azevedo
That's a no-brainer. He's one of the best baseball men I've been around. When you get somebody of that quality that happens to be such a close friend, that's even nicer.
Jim Leyland
My best friend was in an abusive relationship. Her boyfriend used to hit her repeatedly.
Anthony White
I'm his friend, I'm his guarantor.
Vanessa Redgrave
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Hazlitt
We hired a friend to make a film with no sound on it that we could play the music to.
Yorg Kerasiotis
My friend was eaten alive by this bacteria . His legs, his arms were eaten, his intestines were eaten. His colon was eaten before he died. This is not a frivolous situation.
Stephanie Sofos
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
L. Ron Hubbard
No. He's my friend, I don't think he should be, but somebody will be.
Andrew Napolitano
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell
The computer can become your best friend because no one is looking at you. But you have to be very honest with yourself.
Susan Gibbons
I'm not a friend. But when they graduate, we become friends ? sometimes great friends.
George Gwozdecky
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler
I don't think you're a very good friend if you're always being supportive. You also have to add criticism.
Jason Kottke
He's definitely my best friend.
Kurt Clark
It's a little like the Mafia. A friend of mine is a friend of yours.
Jared Paul Stern
I can say it for them -- I'm not talking about the refs, so you can't fine me. Somebody may not be my friend; I'm tired of whispering.
Marcellus Wiley
The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.
Jennie Garth
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin Farrer
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
Tom Bodett
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.
Hebrew Proverb
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
John Travolta
The concern is that the UAE may be our friend now ... but who's to say that couldn't change, or they couldn't be infiltrated. Iran was our big buddy.
Joe Muldoon
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
William Saroyan
Jesus is Daniel's friend, someone he can talk to.
Jack Kenny
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.
Barry C. Forbes
I don't really pay any attention to all that. He's my friend.
Romeo Travis
From what I knew, the governor was his friend and supporter.
Shelley M. Zeiger
He's not a coach, he's a friend. He's like a fan, that's how we see him.
Patrice Servelle
The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend.
Paris Hilton
We do have a lot of common interests with the U.S.. We want to be their friend. We want to have good relations with them.
Sha Zukang
He picked up some things from Davis, and also from Walsh, who was no friend of the media.
Sandy Clough
Bob's been so much more than a boss to us. He's been a friend, a father, a confidante and a counselor.
Cindy Delp
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's what you get when you put all your eggs in a two-building complex in a bad neighborhood. I want you to remember, though, I'm a friend. You're new to this business and I want to help.
Billy Procida
I was buying medication for a very dear friend of mine.
Mindy Mccready
It's hard for me to stand up here in this position because Steve is a friend.
Dick Jauron
You took from me my best friend and the father of my children.
Connie Miller
Repetition is your best friend. The more you do something, the better.
Jim Russell
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
George Dennison Prentice
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier
He's a man of great courage, integrity and patriotism, and a good friend.
Asa Hutchinson
We were very afraid of the dogs. I have a friend who was bit by one of the dogs trying to go over there to help.
Mary Peters
The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
Jerry was a good friend to me and a good friend of direct marketing. And at the end of the day, he was a good friend of the truth.
Ron Jacobs
Like my dear old friend Marie Dressler, my ugly mug has been my fortune.
Wallace Beery
It was kind of a friend of a friend thing.
Michael Bonnette
Blake wasn't really merely my student. He was a comrade and friend.
Dennis Potter
The Lord Chamberlain happened to be a friend of hers.
Judi Dench
Don't make any big investments. Have lunch with a friend one day a week, but don't buy a Mercedes.
Kerry Hannon
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
John Webster
He's a friend, but the kind of friend you talk to twice a year.
Macaulay Culkin
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
Robert E Sherwood
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
Don't bypass a town where there's a friend.
Malagasy Proverb
Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.
Louis Macneice
I felt like I was gonna cry or something. She was our best friend here.
Maria Martinez
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabian Proverb
She's saying: 'I will be a friend to you but I will not be an uncritical friend.
Constanze Stelzenmueller
A friend told me that he saw one of our products displayed at a museum in the States. That's really encouraging.
Andrew Lee
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana
A friend nominated me, but I didn't think anything of it because there were 4,200 nominations.
Hope Bevilhymer
Ray is my best friend. He always has my back. He is kind, he is loving, he is warm, he is there when I need him.
Scotty Campbell
He's a good friend of mine. I support him all the way. He'll be back.
Tony Mortensen
[Ryan Anderson, who described Dooley as his] steadfast best friend, ... Suck it up. Drive on.
Bryan Anderson
A Heart makes a good home for the Friend.
Yunus Emre
He always recognized everyone as a friend.
Barbara Stephens
He was going to get a connection — a friend who would give him the benefit of the doubt.
Jared Paul Stern
I tried crack two months ago. I asked a friend what it was like and I couldn't stop.
Amy Jimenez
My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Omar Khayyam
We're going to give it a new friend.
Don Eckerle
Yeah, he's a friend of the governor, but he's also a hell of an attorney.
Chris Klein
This, my friend, is ER .
Lloyd Braun
I love Paris. He is my best friend, and it will be that way forever. This man treated me as no man ever has.
Paris Latsis
There is not anyone running for mayor who is not a close personal friend of mine.
Bob Stevenson
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Nicholas Breton
It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?
Monty Python
I spent some time with a family friend in Plains, Montana.
Holly Johnson
He always had a comeback or a witticism for everything. He loved to laugh and was a very loyal friend.
Kathryn Jensen
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico).
Titus Maccius Plautus
He was a good friend and a sweet, gentle man.
Lauren Zimmerman
He's my best friend since high school. We're real fortunate to enjoy each other's company.
Nancy Riebau
Most of all he is a friend. I just don't want to see him go.
Greg Peterson
It definitely affected move in for all students. Students were encouraged to find a friend to stay with Sunday evening for their comfort and convenience.
Kate Johnson
Just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.
Bobby Allison
What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane
My Friend Peter.
Alkaline Trio
When I came over here, a friend had them [lambs] for sale and I bought them.
Maria Neopolitan
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Radio is changing dramatically. This feels like the loss of a friend that you knew you could always count on and now they won't be there.
Jeff Corbett
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth is both an enemy and a friend.
Nepal Proverb
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
Yunus Emre
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
Phil Gramm
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
It was really shocking. He was our friend, and Molly was our friend.
Jose Maldonado
It's a threat that they are trying to make into a friend.
Shawn Willett
Luckily my friend took charge of the situation.
Nikki Sanderson
Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.
Steve Stifano
We're a friend to everybody at the moment.
Mark Mcinnes
I'm thrilled. My best friend is my teammate.
Jordan Beaver
That was a long time ago, friend.
Doug Mcclure
He was a customer before he was a friend, ... He sparked our interest.
Nancy Frazier
I've lost a dear friend; and, the guy I depended on for so many different things, here in the lab. He's irreplaceable. I don't know where we go from here.
Bill Steele
Peter is my best friend now because he can win a lot of money.
Richard Steere
Christina gave me a new look, and it's been working for me. She's the one who transformed me. She's my best friend now.
Jamie Broback
Lean on me, when you're not strongAnd I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.
Bill Withers
We wanted to have him on there as a friend.
Junior Combs
My friend calls him 'the director, I need more energy in my section!
Adam Yauch
In my eye, China is a nation that can always be a friend and partner of Africa.
Alpha Oumar Konare
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels
She's super-super friendly to everyone. As long as you pet her, she's your friend. She's not a one-person cat.
Lauren Morgens
I have nothing but fond memories of Jennifer as a friend and only wish her well.
Michael Baroni
I've said many times that he's an artist's best friend, ... He doesn't try to make you into something; he tries to get out of you what's already there.
Trisha Yearwood
The only thing that I thought, I mean, for her, for my good friend, and she won't know. ... I thought of that before I hit it.
Nicole Perrot
They obviously have not caught anybody. They have got the car. They know who it belongs to. He did not report it stolen, so either he was the driver or a friend was the driver.
Juan Talancon
Life, that dares send / A challenge to his end, / And when it comes say, `Welcome, friend!'
Richard Crashaw
We felt he was our second son, ... He was a beloved, dear, trusted and talented friend.
Blake Edwards
Believed was a friend or relative of a Bradley County Jail inmate.
Jennifer Johnson
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
I was a big disco-dancing child really. My friend and I were constantly making up routines and flinging ourselves around and doing the splits.
Kate Beckinsale
Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.
James Hetfield
He introduced me to everybody and took me through the school and all that. It was the best thing to have a friend like that.
Mike Gonzalez
The first thing I could do was run to find the kids. I told my friend ... to start putting the kids in the car.
Steve Burton
She is a very good friend to all of us and we love her dearly. She is an inspiration to everyone.
Pat Brunett
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
Della Reese
There is no bigger dream than to have your best friend at work with you every day playing your best friend.
Heather Graham
He was a better friend than anyone will ever know.
Steve Savard
He went out of respect for his friend.
David Matas
I always tell my clients, I'm your only friend now.
Michael Gottlieb
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