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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
- And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
ALI IBN-ABI-TALIB, A Hundred Sayings
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
ANAIS NIN, diary entry, March 1937
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Friendship: A Book of Quotations
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
- And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
RICHARD BACH, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Reverdy Johnson, Jul. 26, 1862
You can go through life and make new friends every year--every month practically--but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale;
- Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart;
- Let not the spirit of its growth depart:
- It is a power to brave the strongest gale.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN, "Friendship"
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING, The Last Gunslinger
- Who hath one friend, of straight and loyal mind,
- But one, of all the million swarms of men,
- Is strong, beyond the energy of ten,
- Is rich, beyond the level of mankind.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN, "One Friend"
- I'm so happy 'cause today
- I found my friends.
- They're in my head.
- Tell me, why are the old friends kind,
- And ever the tenderest, too?
- Youth has no art, but an open mind,
- And its love is sincere and true.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "Tell Me"
My friends' happiness forms part of my own.
PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY, Happiness: Personhood, Community, Purpose
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Trivia
If your heart is filled with human sympathy you are sure to have friends.
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
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