Choosing Friends Quotes - Page 2

• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

  John Muir

  Horse, Men, Use

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Technology, People

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 05, 2012

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, Good Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

  Aristotle

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

  Aesop

  Kissing, Faithful, Enemy

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• In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Laughter, True Friend

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

  William Penn

  Friendship, Freedom, Real Friends

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  Emil Ludwig

  Friendship, Real, Two

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

  Jonathan Davis

  Knows, True Meaning

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Success, Inspirational Love

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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