βA malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.β
Anne Sophie Swetchineenemyfriend
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Quotes on true friendship and the value of friends. Celebrating those who stand by our side.
βA malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.β
β Anne Sophie Swetchine
βA malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.β
βDon't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.β
βMaintaining cordial relationship with friends helps us improve our own capabilities.β
βHe who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.β
βGet not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.β
βDepth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.β
βThe vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.β
βFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.β
βPoverty parts good company.β
βBefore borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.β
βFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.β
βFriendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.β
βFriendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.β
βWe know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.β
βA doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.β
βFriends are flowers that never fade.β
βOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.β
βA friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.β
βA true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.β
βMisfortune tests friends, and detects enemies.β
βYou don't lose anyone when you lose fake friends.β
βA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.β
βConfidence is the bond of friendship.β
βLove and friendship exclude each other.β
βMake new friends but cherish the old ones.β
βAssociate with the good and you will be one of them.β
βMy friends are my estate.β
βBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.β
βIt takes long to win a friend, but a moment to lose one.β
βAssociate with good people, and you will become one of them.β
βTo have a friend is to have another life.β
βMore precious than love or intellect, what has made me happy is friendship.β
βIf you do not know a person, look at their friends β people befriend those whose hearts match their own.β
βWithout friends, there is no satisfaction in any good fortune.β
βFriendship is the herb that shortens moments of sorrow and the fruit that helps time forget.β
βOnly a friend who can share your joy gives you strength to overcome life's adversities.β
βWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.β
βA thousand miles is not far to seek a dear friend.β
βHe who has many friends cannot have one true friend.β
βA friend doubles my joy and halves my sorrow.β
βMisfortune reveals those who are not true friends.β
βThe most valuable possession is a thoughtful and devoted friend.β
βFriendship is love without wings.β
βA friend in need is a friend indeed.β
βA bird has its nest, a spider its web, and a human has friendship.β