Benjamin Franklin Quotes

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.