If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his read more

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask read more

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

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

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

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new read more

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.