Mr Wickham isblessedwith suchhappymanners asmay ensure his making friendsöwhether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.18.

Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

Who can I tear to pieces, if not my friends?† If they were not my friends, I could not do such violence to them.

-Bacon, Francis
Quoted in  John Russell Francis Bacon (1979).

Friends part foreveröwild geese lost in cloud

-Basho, Matsuo
c.1689  On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.219 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

-Berkeley, George
  Maxims Concerning Patriotism.

Just foraword'neutrality'öaword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedöjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.

-Bethmann Hollweg,Theobald von
  On Britain's reaction to the German invasion of neutral Belgium, 4  Aug. Quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War1898^1914 (1926), vol.11.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs14:20.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs18:24.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke16:9.

This is my commandment,That ye love one another, as I have loved you.Greater lovehathnomanthanthis, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John15:12^13.

Future, n.That periodoftimeinwhichouraffairsprosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay For the joy that the day has brought, Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part?

-Bond, CarrieJacobs
  'A Perfect Day'.

Weil ich ihm nicht traue, sind wir befreundet. Because I don't trust him, we are friends.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ('Mother Courage and her Children'), sc.3.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

-Buchanan,James
  Onfinally achieving his country's highest politicaloffice at the age of 65.

I've inherited100 percent of his enemies and only50 per cent of his friends.

-Bush, GeorgeW(alker)
  Of the influence of his father, former President George Bush, on his campaign for governor. In the Washington Times, 12 Oct.

Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza13.

How to Win Friends and Influence People.

-Carnegie, Dale originally Dale Carnagey
  Title of book.

I amöyet what I am, none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes.

-Clare,John
  'I  Am'.

   Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. 226

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Christabel', pt.2.

   You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

-Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra
  Lord Jim, ch.34.