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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

R. A. Dickson

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf
English novelist (1882 - 1941)

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

Red Skelton

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger"

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasgow

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Chauncey Depew

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh
English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.

Elaine Richards

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King, Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"
US horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - )

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller
US author (1891 - 1980)

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC)

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes
Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC)

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