Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them.
One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.
To get to know a friend, you must share an inheritance with him.
When you are in difficulty, go to the house of your friend -- not your sister's.
One may live without one's friends but not without one's pipe.
You have a lot of friends if you have money; otherwise there are only strangers.
Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.
If you don't have a hundred rubles, make sure you have a hundred friends.
Sorrows are valuable treasures that you only show to your friends.
When two friends dip into their purse, one laughs, the other cries.
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.
We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.
Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves