Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Quote by - Bible)

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends. (Quote by - Cicero)

His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for weeks thegither! (Quote by - Robert Burns)

We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide? Years have not seen, Time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. (Quote by - George Canning)

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe. (Quote by - Cicero)

A friend is, as it were, a second self. (Quote by - Cicero)

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. (Quote by - Bible)

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile! (Quote by - Robert Browning)

Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. (Quote by - Bible)

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)