#friend

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past."

"Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend."

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."

"I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend."

"I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship."

"Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws."

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."

"Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided."

"He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much."

"Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me."

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore."

"I don’t like my circle of friends, so I’m changing them to a square. Love shapes our lives, so why not shape who we love?"