Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

"Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are."

I would like to know everyone's opinion. Do you agree to this? why and why not?

Are there some basis, findings, hypothesis, exceptions etc. to this Assyrian Proverb?

Well, i tend to isolate myself from being friend with people i had bad experience(s) with. Surely they are productive ones in others. In fact, i haven't criticized them or condemned them by their behaviors,yet i didn't feel close to them anymore. It's just my feeling. 

haha!  I am a Chinese. The word is in our English book. I think it is good and right.

Well, I am a new comer and I am a quite boy. I want to make friend with everyone.  I anticipate your rely.

thats perfectly fine kana… i would really like to hear out different opinions about this.

as much as i wanted to dig in more infos.. haha..

i appreciated it a lot knowing that there are valid explanations to shove to this narrow kind of thinking.

i just wonder why did assyrians come up with this proverb. (assyrians they are now the people of iraq).

it is also my point yana, people shouldn't condemn / judge others, but it's so difficult if there are those kinds of friends who judge a person by their circle of friends. 

 To whnext,

i find your opinion interesting. you have had bad experience(s) with your friends and remained distant with them, why not try to make things right with them and continue building friendship? why not value the friendship? 

"Well, i tend to isolate myself from being friend with people i had bad experience(s) with. Surely they are productive ones in others. In fact, i haven't criticized them or condemned them by their behaviors,yet i didn't feel close to them anymore. It's just my feeling." – whnext,

This proverb is the same as the shoutout that a friend of mine posted in her Friendster profile: "WHEN THE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IS NOT CLEAR TO YOU, LOOK AT HIS FRIENDS."

whnext, I can perfectly understand what you are saying. There are probably just times when the friendship is not worth continuing anymore…when the relationship (friendship) brings more bad than good.

whnext i kinda feel like that too. sometimes i get just too much of my friends and prefer to be alone. there's no problem with that, it just means that they're not the right friends (which, again, doesn't mean that they are bad people).. "mejor solo que mal acompañado" ("its better being alone than in bad company") ^^

 and about the topic.. i disagree because of the same reasons everyone disagrees.. xD what else can i say

Hi there Sakura,

Well that proverb does not apply to those people who are broadminded. I also don't believe in that statement. What Yana , kana and others said about it are true. Well for some people it maybe not good to go along well with those friends who are on the wrong path..coz they  maybe have weak personality. They don't think of what is good  for them .they just follow or do what their friends are doing…not realizing he or she has his own life to deal with…has own ideas..thinking. Outside forces may attract you depending on how strong you are. If you are weak and you just go with the current..even if you know that it is wrong and you can do better..why do so? Thats why we are given reasoning power..our mind to think what is best for you.

I do have different circle of friends too…from young people to older ones…from gay to lesbian, separated and widow…i even do have friend who is a whore..does it mean i am a whore too? We can just give our advices to them..but still its up to them to decide for themselves..so we can't blame people around you…its "YOU" who decide for yourself and no one else.

And in making friends..it does not matter who you are, what you are and where you are from…what is important is that you go along well with each other. You maybe in opposite ideas on somethings but it does not mean you can  not be good friends. And i have noticed one time…in my own experienced ….those people we thought less to help us… are those people who will be there for you at times when you needed them most.

It is right that we valued every friendship we have..thats what matters most. 

wow.. sweet10! salute!