--- title: "7 Friend Thou Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Friend Thou quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Friend Thou sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/benjamin-franklin-65_enemy_thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-fri_161719.png" --- > [Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-friend-but-thou-may-st-a-friend/) [Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/benjamin-franklin-65_enemy_thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-fri_161719.png) > [Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillel-the-elder/judge-not-thy-friend-until-thou-standest-in-his-place/) [Hillel the Elder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillel-the-elder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/hillel-the-elder-27698_friendship_judge-not-thy-friend-until-thou-standest_725249.png) > [A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/a-god-must-have-a-god-for-company-and-lo-thou-hast-the-son-god-to-thy/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/george-macdonald-295_business_a-god-must-have-a-god-for-company-and-lo_1626410.png) > [Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/lend-money-to-an-enemy-and-thou-will-gain-him-to-a-friend-and-thou/) [Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/benjamin-franklin-65_best-friend_lend-money-to-an-enemy-and-thou-will-gai_1656303.png) > [Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-penn/choose-a-friend-as-thou-dost-a-wife-till-death-separate-you/) [William Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-penn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/william-penn-1104_choose_choose-a-friend-as-thou-dost-a-wife-till_1716572.png) > [“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects me from thy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kahlil-gibran/my-friend-i-am-not-what-i-seem-seeming-is-but-a-garment-i-wear-a-care/) [Kahlil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kahlil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/kahlil-gibran-1330_friends_my-friend-i-am-not-what-i-seem-seeming-i_1816315.jpg) > [I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/i-conceive-disgust-at-those-impertinent-and-misbecoming-familiarities/) [Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/charles-lamb-1144_alive_i-conceive-disgust-at-those-impertinent_2095290.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friend-thou/#itemlist", "name": "Friend Thou Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Benjamin Franklin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-friend-but-thou-may-st-a-friend/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/benjamin-franklin-65_enemy_thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-fri_161719.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/benjamin-franklin-65_enemy_thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-fri_161719.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/benjamin-franklin-65_enemy_thou-can-st-not-joke-an-enemy-into-a-fri_161719.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.” — Benjamin Franklin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hillel the Elder" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillel-the-elder/judge-not-thy-friend-until-thou-standest-in-his-place/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/hillel-the-elder-27698_friendship_judge-not-thy-friend-until-thou-standest_725249.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/hillel-the-elder-27698_friendship_judge-not-thy-friend-until-thou-standest_725249.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/hillel-the-elder-27698_friendship_judge-not-thy-friend-until-thou-standest_725249.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.” — Hillel the Elder", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George MacDonald" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/a-god-must-have-a-god-for-company-and-lo-thou-hast-the-son-god-to-thy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/george-macdonald-295_business_a-god-must-have-a-god-for-company-and-lo_1626410.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/george-macdonald-295_business_a-god-must-have-a-god-for-company-and-lo_1626410.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/george-macdonald-295_business_a-god-must-have-a-god-for-company-and-lo_1626410.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A God must have a God for company. 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Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The “I” in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do-for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action. When thou sayest, “The wind bloweth eastward,” I say, “Aye it doth blow eastward”; for I would not have thee know that my mind doth not dwell upon the wind but upon the sea. Thou canst not understand my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have thee understand. I would be at sea alone. When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even then I speak of the noontide that dances upon the hills and of the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating against the stars-and I fain would not have thee hear or see. I would be with night alone. When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell-even then thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, “My companion, my comrade,” and I call back to thee, “My comrade, my companion”-for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone. Thou lovest Truth and Beauty and Righteousness; and I for thy sake say it is well and seemly to love these things. But in my heart I laughed at thy love. Yet I would not have thee see my laughter. I would laugh alone. My friend, thou art good and cautious and wise; nay, thou art perfect-and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously. And yet I am mad. But I mask my madness. I would be mad alone. My friend, thou art not my friend, but how shall I make thee understand? My path is not thy path, yet together we walk, hand in hand.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kahlil Gibran" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kahlil-gibran/my-friend-i-am-not-what-i-seem-seeming-is-but-a-garment-i-wear-a-care/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/kahlil-gibran-1330_friends_my-friend-i-am-not-what-i-seem-seeming-i_1816315.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/kahlil-gibran-1330_friends_my-friend-i-am-not-what-i-seem-seeming-i_1816315.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/kahlil-gibran-1330_friends_my-friend-i-am-not-what-i-seem-seeming-i_1816315.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My friend, I am not what I seem. 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