Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes
you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The
nearer you come into relation with a person, the more
necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Never hurt your
friends, not even in a joke.
— Unknown Wise Person
Don’t make friends with people you don’t know.
— Chinese Proverb
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a
little softer than your heart.
— Unknown Wise Person
Don't abuse your
friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
— Edgar W. Howe
Don't make your friends a dumping ground for your
troubles.
— Author Unknown
Forget your woes when you see your friend.
— Priscian
When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be
packing.
— Unknown Wise Person
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the other
lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using
friendly and sincere words.
— Cicero
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance
for another's little lapses.
— William Hazlitt
Between friends there is no need of justice.
— Aristotle
Count not him among
your friends who will retail your privacies to the
world.
— Publilius Syrus
Treat your friends
like a bank account — refrain from drawing too heavily
on either.
— Unknown Wise Person
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be
honest with them. All they really want is to be
maintained in the good opinion they have of
themselves.
— Albert Camus
Treat your friends as you do your picture, and place
them in their
best light.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
Love your friend with
his fault.
— Unknown Wise Person
The first general rule for friendship is to be a
friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second
rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after
all, is what life is finally about.
— Nels J. S. Ferre
Make no friends with
those given to anger, and do not associate with
hotheads, or you may learn their ways and entangle
yourself in a snare.
— Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 22:24-25.
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the
honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
— James Fredericks
