quotations about friends
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
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Helps to Happiness
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
You cannot expect that a friend should be like the atmosphere, which confers all manner of benefits upon you, and without which indeed it would be impossible to live, but at the same time is never in your way.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
You can go through life and make new friends every year--every month practically--but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.
AESOP
"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables