Quotes related to Proverbs 17:17
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
- Samuel Johnson
Make friendship a fine art.
- John Wooden
Friendship is communion.
- Aristotle
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Cicero
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
- Cicero
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
- CS Lewis
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
- Aristotle
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt