“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”– Confucius Related Quotes “I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace’s isn’t such a stretch.”– Debra Messing “I don’t need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I’ve never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word ‘friend.’ I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.”– Stefanie Powers “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson