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If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
A true friend, with an annual oiling, will run a lifetime, like a good watch.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
He who has wealth has friends.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but at the same time, know how to prize them the most.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, Notebooks
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
A man with a pleasant disposition finds friends everywhere, and makes friends where people of a contrary nature see only enemies.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY, Helps to Happiness
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
People are known by the company they keep, and it is always wise to select the best, for if the lower is chosen, it is impossible to rise; but if the best is not agreeable, it is easy to come down. Of course we must live worthy of the best associates, otherwise we will be forced down, and our humiliation will be greater than if we had never aspired to associate with the best people.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY, Helps to Happiness
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
It is the duty of every individual, to be a friend to mankind, as it is his interest, that men should be friendly to him.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
You cannot expect that a friend should be like the atmosphere, which confers all manner of benefits upon you, and without which indeed it would be impossible to live, but at the same time is never in your way.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
One of the most pathetic scenes is to see friendless men and women walking the lonely paths of life. Such need not be the case, for all may have friends if they but live worthy of them, and show themselves friendly.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY, Helps to Happiness
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