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 (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
goods.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute.
He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by
dividing and sharing it.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms
of friendship.
Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in
other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you
haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in
Australia.
Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not
believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours
or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant
of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we
haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed
love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to
the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest
aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and
noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self,
and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select
companions.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an
audience.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist
liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring
you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say
disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation
with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in
cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the
Breakfast-Table, 1858
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about
my old ones.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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