Qoutes2

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin, Diary entry, March 1937

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and more symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited