Quotes About Relationships

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

No nation has friends only interests.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

My friends are my estate.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

My friends, there are no friends.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.