quotations about friends
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
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
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
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