So, here are a few more gems from the greats about our friends:
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
-Aristotle
Tell me who your friends are... and I'll tell you who you are.
-Papa quoting a Russian saying
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- Charlotte Bronte, JANE EYRE
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-Alice Walker
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
-C. S. Lewis
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
-E. B. White, Charlotte, CHARLOTTE'S WEB
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
-David Hume
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
-Ecclesiasticus 6:14
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
-Edgar Watson Howe
Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree -- The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly? The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now And deck thee with the holly's sheen, That when December blights thy brow He may still leave thy garland green.
-Emily Bronte
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
-George Santayana, The Life of Reason
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
-Ben Jonson
-Aristotle
Tell me who your friends are... and I'll tell you who you are.
-Papa quoting a Russian saying
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- Charlotte Bronte, JANE EYRE
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-Alice Walker
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
-C. S. Lewis
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
-E. B. White, Charlotte, CHARLOTTE'S WEB
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
-David Hume
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
-Ecclesiasticus 6:14
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
-Edgar Watson Howe
Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree -- The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly? The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now And deck thee with the holly's sheen, That when December blights thy brow He may still leave thy garland green.
-Emily Bronte
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
-George Santayana, The Life of Reason
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
-Ben Jonson
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In this tangled world, what is there other than the friend?"
~Rumi
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