George Washington Friendship Quotations

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

Letters of friendship require no study.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.