Quotes about Friends

"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."
-Voltaire

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
-Abraham Lincoln

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
-Aristotle

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friends have all things in common."
-Plato

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

"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends."
-George Bernard Shaw

"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
-Aeschylus

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
-Socrates

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
-Oscar Wilde

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
-Oscar Wilde

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
-John Lennon

"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
-William Shakespeare

"Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do."
-Quintus Ennius

"I am wealthy in my friends."
-William Shakespeare

"I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."
-M. C. Escher

"(said of God):If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few!"
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"A little drama wins more friends than boring."
-Scott Westerfeld

"Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults."
-Benjamin Franklin

"You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks."
-Eskimo Proverb

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
-Epicurus

"It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help."
-Epicurus