If you forget your friend, leave him in trouble, you were born in vain.
It is very rightly said: he who has no enemies also has no friends.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Our life is a journey, and a friendly conversation is a cart that makes the traveler's way easier.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
—Seneca
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
—Søren Kierkegaard
“And, dear friends, do not think because you have other service to do that therefore you should take no interest in this form of holy work[…]”
The happy man in this life needs friends.
—Thomas Aquinas
My friends, let us take God at His word. Let us try Him. Let us prove Him. We will find that God is true.
—D. L. Moody
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
—Thomas Aquinas
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
—Henry David Thoreau
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
—Aldous Huxley
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
—Henry Ford
Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?
—J. Gresham Machen
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that?
To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it.
People have always done so.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
—Oscar Wilde
“Be sure, dear friends, to have as your minister a man who lives with God, and walks with God; a man who leans his head on the bosom of Jesus, and then comes forward and speaks what his Master has whispered right into his ear.”
– Charles Spurgeon
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
—Michelangelo
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
—Oscar Wilde
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
—Cicero
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
—Ernest Hemingway
Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.
—Thomas Aquinas
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
—Aristotle
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
—Seneca
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.
—William Shakespeare
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
—Seneca