Quotes related to Proverbs 17:17
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
- Sojourner Truth
That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
- Frederick Buechner
My day has been a pleasant one. My joys have far exceeded my sorrows and my friends have brought me far more than my enemies have taken from me.
- Frederick Douglass
A friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
- Phyllis Logan
Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.
- Sofia Vergara
Not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, but to strive to reduce him to his former disposition
- Marcus Aurelius
Not to shrug off a friend's resentment—even unjustified resentment—but try to put things right.
- Marcus Aurelius
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
- Cicero
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
- Cicero
n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......
- Cicero
As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.
- Cicero