Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille, Malheur at Pitié (Canto I), 1803
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn Abi Talib, A Hundred Sayings
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
Still Remains, a song by Stone Temple Pilots