A man should choose a friend who
is better than himself.
— Chinese Proverb
Never judge someone by who he's
in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in
love with the most appalling people. Take a cool,
appraising glance at his pals.
— Cynthia Heimel
Every man is like the company he
is wont to keep.
— Euripides
When you choose your
friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality
over character.
— W. Somerset Maugham
When the character of a man is
not clear to you, look at his friends.
— Japanese Proverb
A true friend is the
greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the
least care to acquire.
— La Rochefoucauld (1665)
He that walketh with wise men
shall be wise.
— Solomon
If you always live with those
who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
— Latin Proverb
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by thefriends whom we
choose.
— Tehyi Hsieh
The only people who
are worth being friends with are the people who like
you as you are.
— Charlotte Levy
A wise man may look ridiculous
in the company of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
Satin's friendship reaches to
the prison door.
— Turkish Proverb
Associate yourself
with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad
company.
— George Washington
It contributes greatly towards a
man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into
habits of companionship with individuals unlike
himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose
sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to
appreciate.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Keep only cheerful,
positive friends. You can pick your friends, and I like
to choose those who are positive and people who
challenge me. They make me feel good. They don't drag
me down or make me angry at the world. Negative people
see the difficulty in every opportunity, while positive
people see the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Harvey Mackay
Wishing to be friends is quick
work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
Men only become friends by
community of pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
It is better to weep
with wise men than to laugh with fools.
— Spanish Proverb
Friendship demands a religious
treatment. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends
are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Untried friends are like
uncracked eggs — you can't be sure what they are lie on
the inside.
— Unknown Wise Person
Friendship needs a certain
parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry
of aim.
— Henry Adams
Our friends should be
companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our
best.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I would prefer as a friend a
good man who is ignorant than one moreclever who is
evil, too.
— Euripides
A wise man associating with the
vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men
becomes a rational being.
— Arabic Proverb
A friend that ain't in need is a
friend indeed.
— Kin Hubbard
Have no friends not
equal to yourself.
— Confucius
Shared joys make a friend, not
shared sufferings.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a person has held close,
throughout their entire lives, two friends that always
remained strange to one another, because one of them
attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by
difference.
— Emil Ludwig
Friends that you can
buy are a dime a dozen, and will shortchange you if
given a chance.
— Author Unknown
Only be admonished by what you
already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with
cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our
impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances
which no God attends.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be courteous to all, but
intimate with few, and let those few be well tried
before you give them your confidence.
— George Washington
In the sweetness of friendship
let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
— Kahil Gibran
Be cautious in
choosing friends, and be even more cautious in changing
them.
— Unknown Wise Person
Seek those who find your road
agreeable, your personality stimulating, your
philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful.
Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
There can be no Friendship where
there is no Freedom.
— William Penn
You cannot be friends upon any
other terms than upon the terms of equality.
— Woodrow Wilson
A true friend is the greatest
possesion.
— Benjamin Franklin
One who knows how to show and to
accept kindness will be a friend better than any
possession.
— Sophocles
