Quotes related to Proverbs 17:17
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Cicero
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— St. Jerome
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
— Mortimer Adler
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
— Samuel Johnson
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
— Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington