Friendship Risks Quotes

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.