the six samurai

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
-Confucius

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln

"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere." 

"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
-Gravestone from the 1800s

"A friend loveth at all times."
- Proverbs 17:17

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you
than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
- Richard Bach

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."
- Richard Bach