Friendship

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

- Albert Schweitzer

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" ( ? )

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.

- Aristole

To be mad at someone- that is easy. To be mad at the right person, for the right reason, at the right time and at the right degree- that is not easy"

- Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

- Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics" ( ? )

Men of genius are admired. Men of wealth are envied. Men of power are feared. But only men of character are trusted.

- Arthur Friedman

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

- Buddha

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

- C.S. Lewis

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

- Charles Darwin

I have great faith in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.

- Edgar Allan Poe

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

- Euripides

Convey thy love to thy friend, as an arrow to mark, to stick there, not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back to thee.

- Francis Quarles

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew

- Henry Rollins

And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.

- Kahlil Gibran

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

A true friend stabs you in the front

- Oscar Wilde

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime"

- Richard Bach, "Illusions" ( ? )

If friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we have finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our brotherhood. Overcome space, and all we have left is here. Overcome time, and all we have left is now. And in the middle of here and now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

- Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" ( ? )

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

- Russian Proverb

The most i can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

- Thoreau

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

- Walt Whitman

Related Quotes

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

- Charles Caleb Colton, In Love

"Friendship is present in all things but love"

- Much Ado About Nothing, In Literature/Shakespeare

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