The Mighty Wings ... pen

Quotations on friendship...pen

This page is dedicated to all my friends who have proven their worth to honor the word "Friend". The long known quote, "A friend in need is a Friend indeed," is virtuously applicable to them.

In their honor, the following quotes are dedicated.

The Mighty Wings

  • Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
  • A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to
    acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
  • Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like
    best, they are merely the people who got there first.
    Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004), Dear Me (1977)
  • "A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.", Wilma Askinas
    "A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.", Unknown
  • We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
  • The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
    Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
  • The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any
    reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
  • You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
    Dale Carnegie
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them
    your confidence. 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 (1732 - 1799)
  • It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
    Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
  • Friends have all things in common.
    Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus
  • The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
  • To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
    Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
  • Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
    Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
  • We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
    Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War


I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have
nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
NB. I would have proudly posted pictures and names of my Mighty Wings but the same is not done for privacy reasons.
Also: It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake (1757 - 1827)

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