Frined & FriendShip

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille (1738–1813), French poet and abbot.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker (1915– ), U.S. poet, novelist, and journalist.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949), British writer, critic, and anthologist.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius (551 BC–479 BC), Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ben Abi Taleb

I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

George Farquhar (1678?–1707), Irish dramatist.

It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Toni Morrison (1931–), U.S. novelist.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Voltaire (1694–1778), French writer and libertarian philosopher.

A bad neighbor is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

Hesiod (lived 8th century BC), Greek poet.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English philosopher, lawyer, and statesman.

A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

Desmond John Morris (1928–), British biologist and writer.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British lexicographer and writer, May 1781.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

James Howell (1594?–1666), British writer, 1645-1655.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Irish-born British novelist.

I count myself in nothing else so happy
as in a soul remembering my good friends.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and playwright.

It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English philosopher, lawyer, and statesman.

Men seem to kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it as glass and it goes to pieces.

Attributed to: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906– ), U.S. writer.

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