John Webster - Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Len Wein - A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Elizabeth Taylor - You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Washington Irving - Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Arnold H. Glasow - A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Thomas A. Edison - I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
W. Somerset Maugham - When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Shirley MacLaine - Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Herman Melville - Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Doug Larson - A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Confucius - Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
William Penn - A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Mignon McLaughlin - It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Justin Bieber - Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
Laurence J. Peter - 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.
Katherine Mansfield - I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Giotto di Bondone - The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Walter Winchell - A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
Thomas Aquinas - There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Chanakya - There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Bill Watterson - Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Jim Morrison - A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Abraham Lincoln - Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Charles Darwin - A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Elie Wiesel - Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Epicurus - It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Plutarch - I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
C. S. Lewis - Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Elbert Hubbard - Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Garrison Keillor - They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Queen Victoria - A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Fred Rogers - How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
Jean Baudrillard - The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Albert Finney - To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
Saint Ignatius - Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Jonathan Winters - My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Viktor Orban - It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
Sebastian Thrun - It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
Lionel Messi - The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
Merle Haggard - Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
Ellie Goulding - Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
Boris Johnson - It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
Vaclav Havel - Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Kimberly Elise - I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.
Graham Greene - Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.