by
Chet
16. May 2010 07:04
True Friendship
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
"A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity."
- Solomon - Proverbs 17:17
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides, Greek playwright
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero, Roman Philosopher 106BC – 43BC
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller
"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."
-Benjamin Franklin
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”
-Solomon – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
-Aristotle
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
-Jerome Cummings
"You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime."
-The Little Rascals
"...no man is useless while he has a friend."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
- Lee Iacocca
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.
- Mary Dixon Thayer
"A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
- Solomon - Proverbs 18:24
“Greater Love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
YOU are MY friends…”
- Jesus, John 15:13-14a