“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
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Joseph Addison
3 quotes“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
3 quotes“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a...”
Epicurus
3 quotes“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
Helen Keller
2 quotes“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Cicero
2 quotes“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
Tocqueville
2 quotes“In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.”
Sophocles
2 quotes“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
Muhammad Ali
2 quotes“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really hav...”
Seneca
2 quotes“One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.”
Euripides
2 quotes“It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.”
Simone Weil
2 quotes“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 quotes“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”