“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.”
– Alice Duer Miller
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”
– Chanakya
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
– Plautus
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
“He who hath many friends hath none.”
– Aristotle
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda
“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
– Ulysses S. Grant
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
– Socrates
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
– Confucius
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
– Aristotle
“A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.”
– Bil Keane