Favorite Quotations
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Friendship, 5
Bringing Out the Best in People
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~ Virginia Woolf The fun is having friends who help each other get free. ~ Ram Dass The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ~ Charles Caleb Colton Of all the means to insure happienss throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquistion of friends. ~ Epicurus What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ~ Anais Nin Friendship needs no words-- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld Alone, all alone/ Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone. ~ Maya Angelou Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ~ Jesse Owens The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums. ~ Sydney J. Harris I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A friend to all is a friend to none." ~ Aristotle