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We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.
— Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have made things better. But looking back, I didn't know what they were. As a friend, I was pretty much useless, apparently.
— Megan Crewe, Give Up the Ghost
If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me.
— Santosh Kalwar
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
— Anaïs Nin
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
You're going to make the new friend impressedif you keep remember her when she'd forgotten.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Faults are soon copied.
— Horace
I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
For the longest time I couldn't understand the meaning of the cliche "being compatible" - whether about a lover, colleague, team mate or friend. I now get it. There is so much more behind this superficial nauseatingly-pragmatic diplomatic phrase -- it goes deep down to the true essence of someone, how they see the world, how they see and position themselves, how prepared/capable they are to back you, whether they can understand who you are and if they are prepared to break walls for you. Anything else is details.
— Iveta Cherneva
It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.
— Toba Beta
If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.
— Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Thank you,” I said, turning around a little so I could talk to him. “You’re a good friend.”“I know,” he said, as he tightened his hold around me. I leaned back against his chest, resting against him. “Beckett, I–,” I started to say, but he stopped me.“Shh,” he said. “You don’t need to say anything. Just watch the fireworks.
— Monica Alexander, Just Watch the Fireworks
Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“-Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.
— Charles Dickens
Your Employees is Part of Your Company,If you want to improve your business Treat like friend not like servant.
— M.Zuber Bhoja
Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.
— Liz  Newman
Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Fluttershy's friends openly accuse Discord of lying about being reformed, and they are shocked when Fluttershy rushes to his defense. Discord appears genuinely touched when Fluttershy tells him to count her as a friend. A friend- his first and only friend!
— Brandon T. Snider, The Elements of Harmony: The Official Guidebook
A friend in need becomes always a friend in need if you help him once......
— Ankala Subbarao
True Friends look at you with no judgment in their eyes, they know you've made mistakes but they accept you for being human and help you right the wrongs
— Vergi Crush
A friend who betrays you is an enemy.
— Gift Gugu Mona
We hastily call someone a friend.
— Nabil N. Jamal
I know you're feeling worried,But I promise I'm okay.You think I'm missing all the fun,But I don't want to play.And I'm not feeling lonely;Yeah, I've got a friend with me.I'm just keeping this corner company.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
A Killer is the best friend... - WTF!???
— Deyth Banger
(from a prayer for inclusiveness):O god whose face changes as we move and learn and change, whose image becomes less like ours and more like that of the stranger we treat as a friend; the god whom we create from the sum of all we know that is wonderful, generous, true and wise: May we see ourselves in the god-ness of others and ourselves in their image of you.
— Bronwyn Angela White, You Who Delight Me
I don’t want any other friends! They’d never be as good a friend as you are.
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
Cassie?”It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more than he is the Cassie one at the moment. Who’s this guy falling from the ductwork, and what’s he doing with my sister?“This must be Sammy,” Evan says.“This is Sammy,” I say. “Oh! And this is—”“Ben Parish,” Ben says.“Ben Parish?” Evan looks at me. That Ben Parish?“Ben,” I say, my face on fire. I want to laugh and crawl under the counter at the same time. “This is Evan Walker.”“Is he your boyfriend?” Sammy asks.I don’t know what to say. Ben looks totally lost, Evan completely amused, and Sammy just damned curious. It’s my first truly awkward moment in the alien lair, and I’d been through my share of moments.“He’s a friend from high school,” I mutter.And Evan corrects me, since it’s clear I’ve lost my mind. “Actually, Sam, Ben is Cassie’s friend from high school.”“She’s not my friend,” Ben says. “I mean, I guess I kind of remember her…” Then Evan’s words sink in. “How do you know who I am?”“He doesn’t!” I fairly 
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. "Shelley, this is Paco. He's Alex's friend. Paco, this is my sister, Shelley."At the mention of Alex's name, Shelley gives a happy squeal."Hey, Shelley," Paco says.Shelley smiles wide."Shell-bell, I need you to do me a favor." Shelley bobs her head in response as I whisper, "I need you to keep Mom occupied while I talk to Paco."Shelley grins, and I know my sister will come through for me.
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
Hana?" Lena says softly. "Are you okay?"That single stupid question breaks me. All the metal fingers relax me at once, and the tears they've been holding back come surging up at once. Suddenly I am sobbing and telling her everything: about the raid, and the dogs, and the sounds of skulls cracking underneath regulator's nightsticks. Thinking about it again makes me feel like I might puke. At a certain point, Lena puts her arms around me and starts murmuring things into my hair. I don't even know what she's saying, and I don't care. JUst having her here—solid, real, on my side—makes me feel better than I have in weeks. Slowly I manage to stop crying, swallowing back the hiccups and sobs that are still running through me. I try to tell her that I've missed her, and that I've been stupid and wrong, but my voice is muffled and thick
— Lauren Oliver, Hana
The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.
— Mark Lawrence, Red Sister
It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince
Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.
— Francis Bacon
Everybody wants to be your friend when you have something that they want.
— Moosa Rahat
It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
Death began to look like a friend.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
A man can never have too many friends.
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
We turn around and there stands Aidan, looking like he just won a million dollars. He can't keep his eyes off Ivy."Hey, Aidan," I greet. "I'd like you to meet Ivy.""I am quite pleased to meet your acquaintance." Ivy gently shakes his hand.Finally getting a grip, Aidan returns the shake, his goofy grin reappearing on his face. "Yeah. I'm Aidan. Good to meet you, too.""Rylan has told me so much about you."Aidan rubs his chin, a comically sly glint in his eyes. "Oh really? Did he say how dashing, brilliant, and incredibly handsome I am?""No." I shakes, completely unaware it's all a joke. "Rylan said you were loud and that if it was not for him, you'd still be stuck in the third grade."I snort into my water as Aidan scowls."But he also says you're a good brother, a trustworthy friend, and very funny." She breaks off giggling. "And I see what he means. You should see the look on your face!"Oh, ya mean this?" Aidan puts his hands up and wiggles his fingers as his expression contorts into something even crazier. Ivy continues giggling; even I let out a chuckle feeling my nerves disappear. No more worrying with the whole "meet my friends" situation.
— Colleen Boyd, Swamp Angel
Nadia...first, I'm flattered you like me. You're a wonderful girl, and I'm lucky that I met you. You're one of my best friends, my only friends. And since that night with Ivy, you've been amazing. You and your brother have truly been there when I needed you to be."I sigh. "Maybe if things had stayed normal—if I never got attacked, if I never met Ivy—I may have been able to return your feelings. But now...right now, I need a friend more than a girlfriend to help me get through this."Nadia didn't look very happy, but she nodded; she understood. "You really liked her, didn't you?"There was no doubt about my answer."Yeah. I did. I still do. And I will for the rest of my life.
— Colleen Boyd, Swamp Angel
Why, so we can look for some little kid who probably doesn’t even know he’s missing?”Again Sam resisted the surge of anger. As mildly as he could he said, “Brother, nobody is making you come.”“You saying I shouldn’t?” Quinn took two quick steps and grabbed Sam’s shoulder. “You saying you want me to leave, brah?”“No, man. You’re my best friend.”“Your only friend.”“Yeah. That’s right,” Sam admitted.“All I’m saying is, who died and made you king?” Quinn asked. “You’re acting like you’re the boss here. How did that happen? How come I’m taking orders from you?”“You’re not taking orders,” Sam said angrily. “I don’t want anyone taking orders from me. If I wanted people taking orders from me, all I had to do was stay in town and start telling people what to do.” In a quieter voice Sam said, “You can be in charge, Quinn.”“I never said I wanted to be in charge,” Quinn huffed. But he was running out of resentment. He shot a dark look at Edilio, a wary look at Astrid. “It’s just weird, brah. Used to be it was you and me, right?”“Yeah,” Sam agreed.In a whining voice Quinn said, “I just want to get our boards and head for the beach. I want everything to go back to how it was.” Then in a startling shout he cried, “Where is everyone? Why haven’t they come for us? Where. Are. My. Parents?
— Michael Grant, Gone
In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.
— Edmund White, Our Young Man
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!
— Deyth Banger
Never be too compromising and forgiving coz over time, your stand becomes worthless to others!
— Aanu
LIFE says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy
— shivangi lavaniya
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
— Walter Winchell
And thought about the female who, despite being human, he was beginning to see as a friend
— Anne Bishop, Written in Red
A true friend repays loyalty with loyalty, honesty with honestyand favours with favours.
— Theodore Volgoff, The Backpack
fLIFE says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy -shivangi lavaniya
— shivangi lavaniya
Every new friend, in your life is 1% success.
— Deyth Banger
Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.
— Elizabeth Langston, Whisper Falls
You’re not like any other keeper I’ve met before. I’ve seen you two together, and more than anything I see you treat him as a friend. You look at him as an equal. Him… he looks at you with hope, and even more than that. I know that whatever bond you share with each other, it’s something real and powerful.
— Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend
Contrary to what you may think, when O’Sah told me about kytaen, that I’d be meeting one, I didn’t picture a pet or a lackey to follow me. I didn’t think of a prisoner. I… I pictured an ally, a friend, OK?
— Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend
If you have no friends, invent one!
— Stephen Richards
What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” ― Frank Crane
— Frank Crane
The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.
— Bianca Scardoni, Inception
To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
Boys fall in love with what they see. Girls fall in love with what they hear. But both with inner eyes. And their inner ears.
— Mutia Prawitasari, Teman Imaji: Tentang Anak Kota Hujan
Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.
— Sunday Adelaja
In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.
— Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You
The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
A friend or an enemy can tell me something about my subjective being, a casual lover can judge my body — the man I love judges my entire being. Every one of his caresses tells me how I am: attractive, desirable. Every one of his questions and answers tells me what I am: a person with whom he wants to enjoy himself, who interests him more than all the others he knows. By choosing me among all others, my love has made me unique; I alone in all the world am the one he loves, and no other. If I am lucky in love, the definitions become more precise from day to day; after each date I know even better than before what I want to know about myself. The others can say what they like about me; I don't have to believe a word of it. Only the one I love can tell me about myself. Since his definitions grow increasingly precise, my dependence on him also grows more acute as time goes on, but he is in the same position with regard to me. I tell him that I belong to him alone, that he can do with me what he likes, that I cannot live without him.
— Esther Vilar, The Polygamous Sex
Never be in a hurry to condemn a friend
—  never be in haste to embrace an enemy.
Your friends are three and your enemies are three. Your friends are: your friend, the friend of your friend, and the enemy of your enemy. Your enemies are: your enemy, the enemy of your friend, and the friend of your enemy.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There’s no tonic like an old friend.
— Stephen King, Revival
If you fulfill God’s will, then God will always be your friend.
— Sunday Adelaja
The friend that you’re with makes you the friend that you are!
— Sunday Adelaja
Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday. Share, Like, comment, and friend. Netiquette
— David Chiles
She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enought, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.
— Unknown Author 909
I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
— W. Dayton Wedgefarth
friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us
— William Wordsworth
Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.
— Plinio il Giovane
I have only one question, my sister and my friend,” she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. “And that is this; which way do you want them sliced—lengthwise, or widthwise?
— Mercedes Lackey
The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path.
— Priyavrat Thareja
A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk.
— Debasish Mridha
I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares.
— Debasish Mridha
The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.
— Peter Tremayne, Shroud for the Archbishop
A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.
— Tana French, Broken Harbour
Good friends are like angels. You don't have to see them to know they are there for you.
— Moywaywa
She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.
— Judith Pella, A House Divided
The thing about heros, are that they don't care what the person looks like, how they treat others or how they are treated themselves. That hero is the one who will constantly help you through the end, guide you through the detail and roughness that is life. They are ALWAYS with you through the end. But truthfully.............That's what I call a TRUE friend.
— Dylan J. Manning
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
— Isaac Newton
FRIENDOnly when you have walked with me through the valley of hardship...When you have fought beside me against an evil foe...When you have cried with me through a painful heartache...When you have laughed with me at life joyous moments...When you have held my hand in silent sorrow at my loss...When you have trusted me in spite of your doubts,,,When you have believed in me when I lacked confidence to believe in my self...When you have defended my honor against lying tongues...When you have prayed for me when I was temped to go wrong...When you have stood with me as others walked away...Then and only then can you call me friend. For then you truly know ME. Then you will have paid the price of sisterhood/brotherhood. Then you will have forged a bond that will transcend time and live beyond life. Then you will truly be called a FRIEND who sticks closer than a brother...© 2013 From the book Meditations From my Garden by Stella Payton
— Stella Payton
Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
— David Finkel, The Good Soldiers
You know it wrong honey. I am friendly. I am not user-friendly.
— Arzum Uzun
Appreciate what you have today, for tomorrow, it could be gone forever.
— Devin Daubenspeck
A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
— Rachel Hamilton
Your boyfriend shouldn't be your only friend.
— Bethany Jett, The Cinderella Rule: A Young Woman's Guide to Happily Ever After
Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Too bad I love you, you'd be dead by now
— Kayla Davis
Both friend and enemy, Faith leads us to the place where we lead ourselves.
— Joanne St.Clair
He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Be helpful after you think, be smart before you create your own personality and be thoughtful after making friends.
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor, Adventures of The Flying Bicycle: A new fairy tale
I am your friend,” Gous said. “I drank with you, didn’t I?”Kline tried to nod but nothing happened. He could see the wrappings around Gous’ hand staining with blood.“Besides,” said Gous, “friendship is one thing, God another.
— Brian Evenson, Last Days
When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examine that person because you may end up putting yourself on a serious examination. Sometimes people lose interest & walk away after a chat because of the type of questions & silly discussions you engage in. Sometimes your highest intelligence end up exposing your foolishness.
— Uzoma Nnadi
Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of the men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them.
— George Yeoman Pocock
To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the respect of his crew. To eliminate a sworn enemy requires little more than opportunity, luck and the willingness to pull a trigger. But to end the life of someone once considered close, regardless of any previous betrayal, requires a determination that few men possess.
— Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.
— Harold Hobbs
No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend
— Colin Higgins, Harold and Maude
I won't take advantage of you. Today, I'll be your friend.""Fen has been my friend for decades," she said, sliding her arm into his when he offered it to her. "And he never presumed to put his mouth on mine.""Obviously I'll be a different kind of friend.
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Flight
Be the type of friend you would like to have.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Such a profound occurrence, when the priorities of those in our lives shine so brightly a path away from who we once thought they were. This light sears insights onto us and helps us along our way. I wonder at times if my old friend hope is my only. She is a relentless presence who will never cease to be--a lone wanderer meeting me time and time again along this road.
— Christopher Hawke, Unnatural Truth
In todays world the ones you trust are the ones who betray you who are your true friends ?
— Priyansh Shah
Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
— Dan Wells, Fragments
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.
— Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always there for me. She was there before my whole world came crashing down, she was there after, and she would be there ‘til they laid us both in the ground, side by side with matching tombstones that read best on one, and friends on the other—yeah it was morbid that we had this all planned out, but that was just us.
— Amanda Stone
My secret friend,Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend,So we can swim forever.
— İamx
There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Don’t shout my friend
—  no one gives you the shit unless you make them.
I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?
— Jayne Bauling, In Pursuit of Love
And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour
Popular culture has made it okay to yell "I want a man!" from the rooftops, so why are we still embarrassed to say, "I want a best friend"?
— Rachel Bertsche, MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend
A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.
— Douglas Jerrod
The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.
— Hiroko Sakai
My greatest friend is truth.
— Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.
— Hiroko Sakai
If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
— Charles Lamb, Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays
It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.
— Somi Ekhasomhi, Always Yours
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
— Jack London
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
— Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
— Abraham Lincoln
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
— Cesar Millan
Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.
— Jonathan Carroll
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
— Dave Barry
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
— Samuel Butler
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
— Aldous Huxley
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
— Agnes Sligh Turnbull
People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.
— Jim Butcher, White Night
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life:  A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
We who choose to surround ourselveswith lives even more temporary than ourown, live within a fragile circle;easily and often breached.Unable to accept its awful gaps,we would still live no other way.We cherish memory as the onlycertain immortality, never fullyunderstanding the necessary plan.
— Irving Townsend
Thus went my first Court Day.I think I'm going to puke.
— Tamora Pierce, Terrier
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
— Robert McCammon, Boy's Life
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— W.H. Auden
You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!
— Dave Barry
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
— Rudyard Kipling
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
— Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder
Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.
— Jen Lancaster, Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.
— Dean Koontz
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
— W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Journey
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
— Marie Corelli
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
— Terry Pratchett, Making Money
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
— Konrad Lorenz
Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums
—  others we take for walks.
Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.
— Nick Trout, Love Is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian about Hope, Humility, and Everyday Miracles
Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?
— P.G. Wodehouse
Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions.
— Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
— Doris Day
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. 
— Jerome K. Jerome
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.
— Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs
Love, love, love, says Percy.And hurry as fast as you canalong the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.Then, go to sleep.Give up your body heat, your beating heart.Then, trust.
— Mary Oliver
You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
— Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.
— Jack London
Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley.“Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!”The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We're going to investigate," Fireheart meowed. "We can't decide how to get rid of these dogs until we know exactly what we have to face. We're not going to attack them, not yet-have you got that, Cloudtail?"Cloudtail's blue eyes burned into his, and he did not reply."I won't take you, Cloudtail, unless you promise to do as you're told without question.""Oh, all right." The tip of Cloudtail's tail flicked irritably. "I want every last dog turned into crowfood, but I'll do it you're way, Fireheart.""Good." Fireheart's gaze swept over the rest of the patrol. "Any questions?""What if we come across Tigerstar?" asked Sandstorm."A cat from another Clan on our territory?" Fireheart bared his teeth. "Yes, you can attack him.Cloudtil let out a growl of satisfaction.
— Erin Hunter, A Dangerous Path
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.
— E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.
— Ann Landers
Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart."What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?"A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which gradually formed into words. Fireheart stared at her in horror as he made out what she was trying to say."Pack, pack," she whispered. "Kill, kill.
— Erin Hunter, A Dangerous Path
Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly."Would you like one?" she asked the little dog."Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool.""I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her."Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
— Alexander Pope
Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs).
— Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
— Gordon Korman, No More Dead Dogs
Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.
— Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT(PERCY THREE)He puts his cheek against mineand makes small, expressive sounds.And when I'm awake, or awake enoughhe turns upside down, his four pawsin the airand his eyes dark and fervent.Tell me you love me, he says.Tell me again.Could there be a sweeter arrangement?Over and overhe gets to ask it.I get to tell.
— Mary Oliver
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-
— Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.
— Jean Ferris, Once Upon a Marigold
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
— Merrill Markoe
I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is sweeter than soap.He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,which can't even bark...
— Mary Oliver
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us." "So?" "We already have that!" "What do you mean?" "We've got dogs!
— Joan Bauer, Peeled
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.
— Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs
A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
— W.E. Woodward, Meet General Grant
If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.
— Brad    Watson, Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories
Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?
— Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life:  A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Joyful, joyful, joyful,as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spirit.
— Pablo Neruda
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.
— Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
The face of a golden retriever feels like home.
— David Rosenfelt, Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
— Bono
A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
— Andrew Vachss
Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope.
— Jim Gorant, The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
— Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs.
— Martha Scott
What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?
— Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.
— Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs
Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?
— Christy Leigh Stewart
A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion's heart,But at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion.
— Charlyn Khater
Hounds follow those who feed them.
— Otto von Bismarck
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.
— Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden