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Category: Friendship and Hostility

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1. "A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "De Amicitia"

2. "Chance makes our families, but choice makes our friends."

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Other categories: Family and Loneliness

3. "Pay attention to your enemies. They are the first to discover your mistakes."

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Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

4. "Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies - never."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Various

5. "The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

6. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

George Bernard Shaw

Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Anger

8. "Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."

William Hazlitt, "The Plain Speaker"

9. "In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."

John Churton Collins

10. "Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

11. "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Truth and Falsity

12. "Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"

Other categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Pain and Tears

13. "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts On Various Subjects"

Other categories: God and Religion

14. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin

15. "A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

16. "Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Willa Cather, "Shadows on the Rock"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

17. "A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Uncle Vanya"

Other categories: Woman and Man

18. "We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Other categories: Various

19. "I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

20. "If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."

Charles Bukowski

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21. "Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."

John Dos Passos , "The Ground We Stand On"

Other categories: Youth and Age

22. "Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Norman Douglas, "South Wind"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

23. "To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

24. "The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."

Woody Allen

25. "Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

W. L. George

Other categories: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy

26. "Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Spanish proverb

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

27. "When you jumped in here, you were my enemy and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me, and I killed you. Forgive me, comrade."

Maxwell Anderson, "All Quiet On The Western Front"

Other categories: Life and Death

28. "Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

Peter De Vries

29. "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

Mao Zedong

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

30. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Other categories: Love -:- Richness and Money

31. "Critical remarks are only made by people who love you."

Federico Mayor

Other categories: Forgiveness

32. "Love! Hate! Is there no third?"

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Other categories: Love

33. "Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Spanish proverb

34. "A man’s fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man’s friends are his magnetisms."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

Other categories: Human

35. "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

36. "To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Other categories: Love

37. "The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, "Catilina"

38. "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison, "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

39. "Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn’t eaten any."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

40. "Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer’s Notebook"

Other categories: Egoism -:- Good and Evil

41. "The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together — the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation."

John Berger

Other categories: Love

42. "Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."

Cesare Pavese

43. "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

44. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Work and Laziness

45. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King

Other categories: Oration and Silence

46. "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

Albert Camus

47. "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."

English proverb

Other categories: Richness and Money

48. "Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough

Other categories: Life and Death

49. "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Leo Buscaglia

Other categories: Nature and Animals

50. "Don't believe them who say that they will follow you like your shadow; because shadows disappear in darkness."

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