Friendship
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
- Aesop
Friends are thieves of time.
- Bacon, Francis
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13, KJV)
- Bible
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
- Cicero
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
- Cicero
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
- Cicero
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
- Confucius
I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
- Cowper, William
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
- Dhammapada, The
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
- Fuller, Thomas
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
- Fuller, Thomas
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
- La Rochefoucauld, François
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
- Mencken, H.L.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Plautus, Titus Maccius
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- Santayana, George
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- Thoreau, Henry David
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Twain, Mark
