A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
- Aristotle


A friend is a second self.
- Aristotle


A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
- Kurt Cobain


A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln


A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- George Washington


Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- George Washington


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln


An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson


Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Ben Franklin


Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates


But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson


Diamonds are a girls best friend.
- Marilyn Monroe


Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- Ben Franklin


Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington


Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson


Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates


Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucius


I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
- Kurt Cobain


If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln


It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
- Mahatma Gandhi


It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
- Confucius


It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain


Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle


My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford


Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
- Confucius


Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Aristotle


Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
- Confucius


The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain


The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
- George_W Bush


The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
- Mark Twain


There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Ben Franklin


Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
- Michael Jackson


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle


When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
- Ben Franklin


Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle


You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
- Hillary Clinton