It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.
“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
“Approve not of him that commends all you say.”
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”
“I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”
“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
“Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity”
“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.”
“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”
“Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend; but thou may’st a friend into an enemy.”
“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”
“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”
“We must be our own [friend] before we can be another’s.”
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”
“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
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