It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Aesop
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
William Hazlitt
Never tell your problems to anyone, 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Anne Swetchine
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
Bob Marley
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
C.S Lewis
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson Gentry