Intelligent Quotes

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”

“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.”

“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”

“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”

“We must be our own [friend] before we can be another’s.”

“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

“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.”

“I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”

“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”