Top 616 Friend Quotes

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you’ve made a friend.
Ricardo Montalban
I’ve had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It’s sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don’t say your friend’s retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don’t be mean to people.
Lauren Potter
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily,

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
Tancredo Neves
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides
I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn’t tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
Olivia Newton-John
I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.
Kelly Osbourne
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
Shakuntala Devi
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Christopher Hitchens
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison
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.
Ariel Pink
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.
George Gissing
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
A. R. Rahman
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
Christopher Marlowe
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul
I tell my kids, ‘I’m your father, not your friend – but I’m also the best friend you’re ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.’
Steve Schirripa
Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
John McAfee
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Steven Van Zandt
Brando’s a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
Peter Fonda
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn’t in me.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
One forgives the critic – perhaps – but never the good-natured friend.
James Payn
Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.
Birdman
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
Phil Gramm
‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
An incinerator is a writer’s best friend.
Thornton Wilder
If you have a resolution to go to the gym, it’ll be a lot easier if you get a great trainer or get your partner or your work buddy or your best friend to go with you so that you’re held accountable to yourself and to that other person.
David Kirsch
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
Jet Li
I was living in London with my brother, and he was a fr

I was living in London with my brother, and he was a friend of Matt Marshall, who signed Tool. So we were the first people over in Europe to get the first Tool demo in 1991, and me and my brother immediately cottoned on to it.
Justin Chancellor
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
Mikhail Bakunin
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
Joyce Meyer
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you’re with someone, like you have a companion.
Annie Leibovitz
If you want a friend, buy a dog.
Kevin O’Leary
My daughter’s name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.
Bode Miller
Rather than say he’s an atheist, a friend of mine says, ‘I’m a tooth fairy agnostic,’ meaning he can’t disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.
Richard Dawkins
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I’ve made through acting, in terms of another actor. He’s fantastic.
Daniel Radcliffe
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, ‘Life and death issues don’t come along that often, thank God, so don’t treat everything like it’s life or death. Go easier.’
Thomas Arnold
Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.
Debbie Reynolds
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
Ivana Trump
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher
I was never the ‘babe,’ so I knew I’d never get those big roles. I’d always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
Joan Cusack
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We’re all protective of the self.
Neil LaBute
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
Goran Ivanisevic
When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is right for the movie, that is the basis you cast someone, not because so-and-so is a friend.
Mani Ratnam
If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that’s around me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of Liza Minnelli, and we’d dance through the night.
Neil Sedaka
I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I’ve always been a Democrat, and I’ve had different views than Mitt Romney. I’m not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.
Stephen Pagliuca
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.
Joan Crawford
I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I’d always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse.
Sean Bean
Few there are that will endure a true friend.
Henry George Bohn
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn’t take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I’d found a friend for life.
Sting
When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.
Demetri Martin