Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything. Votes: 2
Ashley OlsenGet up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness. Votes: 1
Andrew CraigTis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAnd, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonDo you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
Andrew Jackson DavisI would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.
Jacques de LacretelleOf gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Amos Bronson AlcottTime, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEnemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
Henry David ThoreauThe comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Seneca the YoungerThe ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
Alfredo Di StefanoIt is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
Ali ibn Abi TalibThe atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanKilled by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
Hank Williams, Jr.Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
Benjamin FranklinJust because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.
Cinda Williams ChimaI might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Logan Pearsall SmithDrunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
Rabindranath TagoreA friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price
Robert A. HeinleinBut to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
Charles Alexander EastmanA friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
Friedrich NietzscheIn friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Henry Ward BeecherFriendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Honore de BalzacNo one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.
Laura CarmichaelA friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
Marilyn vos SavantThou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Benjamin FranklinI'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.
Chuck PalahniukI am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.
Denise RichardsWhen a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.
Diane von FurstenbergSome of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent. Votes: 1 Brian Littrell
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives. Votes: 6 Andrew Shue
The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner. Votes: 3 Donald Evans
Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration. Votes: 3 Jose Andres Puerta
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. Votes: 1 Akhenaton
It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse. Votes: 1 Ike Barinholtz
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team. Votes: 1 Don Kardong
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team. Votes: 1 Don Kardong
I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all. Votes: 4 Kirsten Dunst
I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people. Votes: 3 Rupert Friend
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. Votes: 3 Marian Anderson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. Votes: 5 Bill Watterson
I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English. Votes: 1 Kerry Greenwood
I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me. Votes: 1 Kate Upton
I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well. Votes: 2 Jennifer Love Hewitt
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up. Votes: 1 Lisa Bonet
I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried. Votes: 2 Jason Aldean
A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know. Votes: 1 Lynda Resnick
Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks. Votes: 1 Hilarie Burton
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Votes: 1 Erma Bombeck
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays. Votes: 1 Julianna Margulies
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays. Votes: 1 Julianna Margulies
When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano. Votes: 1 Herbie Hancock
I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role. Votes: 2 Celia Imrie
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. Votes: 1 Steven Spielberg
I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost my brother and best friend, Nadarius. I couldn't get a job. But I do feel like there is a higher power now, and it's inside of me. Votes: 3 SpaceGhostPurrp
I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see. Votes: 1 Jack Lemmon
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel. Votes: 1 Gabrielle Zevin
All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group. Votes: 3 Rachel Bilson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Votes: 3 Benjamin Franklin
Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers. Votes: 1 Susan Cain
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Votes: 1 Alastair Campbell
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun. Votes: 3 Eric Roberts
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Votes: 2 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do. Votes: 4 Gloria Allred
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Votes: 4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. Votes: 2 Donald Cargill
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. Votes: 1 David Hume
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. Votes: 5 Henry David Thoreau
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Votes: 2 Washington Irving
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. Votes: 1 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Votes: 1 Oscar Wilde
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Votes: 3 Benjamin Franklin
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for. Votes: 3 Henry Home
My first crush was my brother's best friend. Votes: 1 Jennifer Armentrout
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. Votes: 1 George Gissing
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend. Votes: 3 Walter Winchell
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his family, who had created a war against the Turks at the beginning of the last century to revive the Byzantine Empire. For three years, there was fighting, and all my father's friends died. So he hated the royal family. Votes: 2 Costa-Gavras
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Votes: 2 Gustave Flaubert
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. Votes: 2 Cate Blanchett
Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend's sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that. Votes: 1 Shashi Tharoor
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. Votes: 1 Gabriel Byrne
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Votes: 2 Plutarch
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. Votes: 2 Rebecca Harding Davis
To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad. Votes: 1 Rafael Nadal
I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call. Votes: 3 Jenna Elfman
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. Votes: 2 Diane von Furstenberg
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Votes: 2 Plutarch
When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me. Votes: 1 Mindy Kaling
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!' Votes: 4 Marilyn Monroe
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. Votes: 4 Abdul Kalam
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Votes: 2 Bob Iger
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends. Votes: 2 Zooey Deschanel
My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer. Votes: 1 Ryan Holmes
Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love. Votes: 3 Rumi
My husband is actually the nicest guy in the world. He's my sweetheart and best friend, and one of the things I love best about him is that no matter how terrible I look - and believe me, it can get bad - he makes me feel pretty. Votes: 3 Gena Showalter
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. Votes: 5 Dwight L. Moody
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend. Votes: 1 Frank Gifford
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse. Votes: 3 Sarah Addison Allen
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. Votes: 1 William Feather
When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. Votes: 3 Jane Siberry
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. Votes: 3 John Singer Sargent
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. Votes: 1 Margaret Mahy
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Votes: 3 Robert Southey
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. Votes: 2 Margaret Mahy
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. Votes: 2 Aristophanes
I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day. Votes: 2 Bam Margera
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. Votes: 2 Steven Spielberg
I was always the leading man's best friend's best friend. Votes: 4 David Janssen
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. Votes: 3 Johnny Vegas
Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent. Votes: 1 Brian Littrell
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. Votes: 2 Margaret Mahy
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. Votes: 4 Abraham Lincoln
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. Votes: 1 Luke Evans
My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget! Votes: 3 Latif Mercado
I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can. Votes: 3 Mariah Carey
There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.' Votes: 1 Louis C. K.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Votes: 1 Saint Augustine
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Votes: 4 Baltasar Gracian
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Votes: 1 Walter Winchell
If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits. Votes: 1 Gisele Bundchen
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. Votes: 4 Jennifer Aniston
Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend. Votes: 5 Donatella Versace
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. Votes: 6 Thomas Carlyle
I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies. Votes: 3 Ariel Pink
Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend. Votes: 4 Bryant H. McGill
Ever have that one friend who gets a Valentine's Day gift for their mother? Doens't that freak you out a little? It's like, 'I don't know how to break this to you but I think she's banging your dad!' Votes: 3 Russ Meneve
I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune. Votes: 1 Peter Dinklage
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. Votes: 6 William Penn
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart Votes: 5 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Votes: 1 Robert Hall
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. Votes: 1 Fred Wilson
I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them. Votes: 3 Matthew Kane
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement. Votes: 3 Oscar Wilde
Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together. Votes: 3 Henry Winkler
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. Votes: 6 Ben Kingsley
My best friend and I go to bed at 11 o'clock. We have such old lady schedules. Everyone's always like, 'Let's go out!' And we're always like, 'No, we don't want to.' They call us the grandmas. L.A. can get really old really quickly if you waste your life away in a club all night. Votes: 1 Britt Robertson