Friends, Western Proverb

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.

- Western Saying

Friends, Alfred Tennyson

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Friends, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Friends, Henry Brooks Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

Friends, Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost

- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

Advice, Book of Proverbs

Whoever overlooks an offense fosters friendship, but whoever gossips about it separates friends.

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 9

[17:9] A paradox. One finds (love, friend) by concealing (an offense), one loses (a friend) by revealing (a secret). In 10:12 love also covers over a multitude of offenses.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Friend·Friendship, Confucius

有朋自遠方來 不亦樂乎。

- 孔子

Isn't it great when friends visit from afar?

― Confucius (551BC–479BC)

Friendship, Saint Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

- Saint Jerome (347-420)

It is well, when judging a friend, ... (Arnold Bennett)

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

- Arnold Bennett

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

Friend (Shawshank Redemption)

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.

- Shawshank Redemption