Friends

Friends



Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
- Afghan Proverb

A small house will hold a hundred friends.
- African Proverb

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is not born of words alone.
- Armenian Proverb

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
- Assyrian Proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
- Gabonese Proverb

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts Mumford

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
- Russian Proverb

The time to make friends is before you need them.
- Traditional Proverb

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
- Egyptian Proverb

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
- Michael Johnson