If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Churton Collins
Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies.
Robert Greene
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
No author
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Anne Swetchine
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your throat.
Spanish proverbs
Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you.
English proverbs
To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
Broken friendship maybe soldered, but never made sound.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas
