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, 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)