Subject: People » Friends

Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.

(1949 – ) American singer-songwriter, composer & actor

A friend in need is a pest.

(1925 – ) English actor

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

You want a friend in Washington?… get a dog.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

Before borrowing from a friend, decide which you need most.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A fool and his money is a friend indeed.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Ask anybody over 30 – if they tell you they have more than 10 friends, you know they’re counting co-workers.

American comedian & television host

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.

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

(1915 – 1985) stage & film actor & director

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

And now, I’m pleased to introduce the star of the film Gladiator, and a man I like to call a close, personal friend, but he told me not to…

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

I got my period today; I’m happy ’cause most of my friends got it when they were 13.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

Greater love hath no man than this, to lay down his friends for his life.

(1929 – ) British politician

Everyone I like stays the hell away from me.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Friends are God’s apology for relations.

(1889 – 1949) British writer & journalist

Even when I was a kid, my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host