One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

- George Carlin

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Laurence J. Peter

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have the nonsense respected.

- Charles Lamb

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

- Samuel Butler

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

- Emma , Jane Austen

An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.

- Jim Hayes

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

- Arthur Brisbane

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

- Poor Richard's Almanack , Benjamin Franklin

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

- Bernard Meltzer

Friends are God's ways of apologizing for our families.

- Anonymous

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

- C.S. Lewis

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends - they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!

- Warren G. Harding

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

I need you too know our friendship means a lot - If you cry then I cry, if you laugh. If you jump out the window I look down then....I laugh again.

- Anonymous

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

- Charles Bukowski

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

- P. D. James

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

- Ethel Barrymore

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

- Dan Quayle

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

- Edward Abbey

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

- Andy Warhol

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

- Joan Crawford

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

- Margaret Cho

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

- Chris Tucker

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

- Erma Bombeck

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

- The Picture of Dorian Gray , Oscar Wilde

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

- George Santayana

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

- Cameron Diaz

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

- Lauren Bacall

Ello, Sue. I've got legs. Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. Bye! I love you.

- Eddie Izzard

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'

- Jennifer Lopez

At this time when I turn 50, because so there`s many of my friends and family who didn`t get to see 50-years-old, and so, I`m celebrating for them too.

- Reba McEntire

I am 65, my friends say i look 55, i feel 45, i'll settle for 35, and you make me feel 25!

- Redd Foxx

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

- Jesse Owens

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

- Mark Hoppus