Quotes about friends

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .

Aristophanes

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Barbara Bush

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Chinese proverb

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Arthur Miller

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Miguel de Unamuno

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Balthasar Gracian

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Robert Burton

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't trust him. We're friends.

Bertolt Brecht

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh