Friendship Quotes and a Verse...

Friendship Quotes and a Verse

"If one person falls, the other can reach out and help.

But someone who falls alone is in real trouble."

- Ecclesiastes 4:10

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...

it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things

that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis



"Without friends, no one would choose to live,

though he had all other goods."

- Aristotle

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when

we realize we have discovered a friend."

- William Rotsler

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,

and let those few be well-tried before you give them

your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth,

and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity

before it is entitled to the appellation."

- George Washington

"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts,

and the bond there of virtue."

- Samuel Johnson

“A true friend gives freely,

advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly,

takes all patiently, defends courageously,

and continues a friend unchangeably.”

- William Penn

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

- Baltasar Gracian

"False friendships, like the ivy, decays and ruins the

walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and

animation to the object it supports."

- Richard Burton

"We love those who know the worst of us and

don't turn their faces away."

- Walker Percy

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry;

I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,

and have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb