Funny Friendship Quotes from Famous People

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-Thomas Jones
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Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
 -Spike Milligan
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
 -P. D. James
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
 -Benjamin Franklin
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
 -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I got a lotta best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know! - Archie Bunker
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
 -Euripides
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
 -Euripides
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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-Virginia Woolf
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I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends—they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
 -Warren G. Harding
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
 -George Ade
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
 -Arthur Brisbane

Have I Ever Really Known You? Poem

Have I Ever Really Known You?




Of late, I have wondered.

Wondered? You asked.

Wonder if I ever have known you.

Known me?

Yes you, the real you.

I wonder if those times we talked, or those times we laughed were moments that truly had some type of meaning to you, as it did for me.

You have to be joking!

Then, I picked up the lace kerchief that I used to dry your tears when hurt and pain came your way.

You still have that ugly thing?

I tried to clean out the stains but they remained, and so I fold it up and keep it in a pocket in case you should ever need it.

You should have thrown that away in the trash.


No one wants to use that dirty filthy thing!

There was a time in my life when I needed a special lace kerchief, but there was none.

What are you talking about? You have everything!

I enjoyed the delight in your eyes with each treasure that I gave to you.

That’s what you do when you’re rich.

I tried to send letters of care, of encouragement, and when you were sad, a letter to let you know that I would be there for you no matter what.

Yeah, I got all of those letters. You have so much time to write. I just don’t have the time.

Now, I am sitting here wondering and thinking if I ever really knew you, the true you?

I needed and craved your friendship but you were not there.

You were not there to dry my tears when I was scared and needed you most.

Tokens of friendship that I presented to you were taken with greed and expectation.

As I am aging, perhaps dying a little each day, will you be there?

Can I depend on you to dry my tears with your lace kerchief?

Throughout life, friendship is a queer trait, because we will never truly know if it ever really existed.

On my deathbed, I will know my friends,

They will be the ghosts in the room holding my hand.



September 27, 2006 by Erica M. Kadrmas