“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“We must be our own [friend] before we can be another’s.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I am a biography nut myself. And I think when you’re trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them. I think you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your friend. That sounds funny, making friends among the eminent dead, but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better for you in life and work better in education. It’s way better than just giving the basic concepts.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)