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Aristotle1 quote
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BCDinah Craik1 quote
Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Craik · 1859Epicurus1 quote
Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. — Epicurus · 240Forrest Gump1 quote
Bubba was my best good friend and even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner. — Forrest Gump · 1994Nicholas Grimald1 quote
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? — Nicholas Grimald · 1557Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1838Samuel Johnson1 quote
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson · 1784Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1828St. Jerome1 quote
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374Willa Cather1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931