Subject: People » Friends (Page 3)

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

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

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

(1929 – ) British politician

How do people make new mates?… asking for a friend.

Comedian & writer

He's a fine friend; he stabs you in the front.

(1904 – 1974) American author & radio producer

I’m a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

…the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.

(1973 – ) American comic book writer & artist

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Friends: There are two kinds of friends – those who are around when you need them, and those who are around when they need you.

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

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

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter

Everyone I like stays the hell away from me.

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

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

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

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat

If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you… the next time he’s in need.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist