Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

I've always believed that you often need less. You don't need to hear why people are friends, you don't need to hear why people are roommates, you don't need to hear why someone would help a friend to do something.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

To me, love has always meant friendship.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.