quotations about friends
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
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
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
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
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