When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

 

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno

 

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

 

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
Laura Moncur

 

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin

 

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

 

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

 

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron

 

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus

 

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

 

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

 

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-04-10

 

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05

 

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.

 

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

 

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi

 

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

 

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone

 

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

 

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus)