A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
The rich know not who is his friend.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses.
Give and take makes good friends.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
A friend is a masterpiece of nature.
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
True friends stab you in the front.
Friends are lifelines!
A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.
Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.