Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
- Charles Swindoll
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
- Charles Spurgeon
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.
- Anonymous
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- Samuel Johnson