quotations about friends
It is the duty of every individual, to be a friend to mankind, as it is his interest, that men should be friendly to him.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
One of the most pathetic scenes is to see friendless men and women walking the lonely paths of life. Such need not be the case, for all may have friends if they but live worthy of them, and show themselves friendly.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
Who hath one friend, of straight and loyal mind,
But one, of all the million swarms of men,
Is strong, beyond the energy of ten,
Is rich, beyond the level of mankind.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN
"One Friend"
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMER
The Odyssey
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale;
Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart;
Let not the spirit of its growth depart:
It is a power to brave the strongest gale.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN
"Friendship"
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Islands in the Stream
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited
We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.
AESOP
"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables
My friends' happiness forms part of my own.
PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY
Happiness: Personhood
Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
New friends are like silver, but old friends are like gold.
FLORENCE F. BRADLEY
"10 things I learned from my father", Ocala, June 16, 2019
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
A man with a pleasant disposition finds friends everywhere, and makes friends where people of a contrary nature see only enemies.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
ZIG ZIGLAR
attributed, The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
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