Archive for category: Friends/Realtionship

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi – Indian politician, 1966-77 and 1980-84 Prime Minister (1917-1984), Quotations book 2014

Friendship is like a track on the sand, it vanishes if not consistently re-done.

from Kamerun

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival..

C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963)

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

Wisdom – Quotations book 2016

You only love your friend truly, when you love God in your friend, either because he is in him, or in order that he may be in him.

Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctors of Church (354-430), Sermon 336,2

Comme donc ceux qui tirent le gravier du Tage en séparent l’or qu’ils y trouvent pour l’emporter, et laissent le sable sur le rivage, de même ceux qui ont la communication de quelque bonne amitié doivent en séparer le sable des imperfections, et ne le point laisser entrer en leur âme.

François de Sales – fondateur de l’ordre, mystique et évêque de Genève de 1602-22 (1567-1622), de “Introduction à la vie dévote”, troisième partie de l’Introduction “Contenant plusieurs avis touchant l’exercice des vertus”, ​Chapitre XXII “Quelques autres advis sur le sujet des amitiés” (1609)

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.

The Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) – Quotations book 2016

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Proverb, seen at Linda Grayson – American entrepreneur (Printwick Papers), often falsely attributed to Charles Dickens

Ὧν ἡ σοφία παρασκευάζεται εἰς τὴν τοῦ ὅλου βίου μακαριότητα, πολὺ μέγιστόν ἐστιν ἡ τῆς φιλίας κτῆσις.

Epicurus from Samos – Greek philosopher (341-270 B. C.); from “Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (Book ten, Epicurus) by Diogenes Laërtius (Greek historian and doxographer, 3rd century CE)

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

William H. “Bill” Gates – American Software entrepreneur, Microsoft (b. 1955)

Christians, like snowflakes, are fail,
but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

Dr. Vance Havner – American pastor and author (1901-1986)

Ò δέ καθήμενος μετὰ ἀδελφῶν, οὐκ ὀφείλει εἶναι τετραγωνιαῖος, ἀλλὰ στρογγύλος, ἵνα πρὸς πάντας κυλίηται.

wisdom of Abbas Matoe – early Christian monk, as quotet in “The Words of the Fathers” (“Apophthegmata Patrum”), a book about the first Christian monks in Egypt (3rd to 5th century)

Integrity has no need for rules.

Albert Camus – Frech philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (1913-1960), from “The Myth of Sisyphos” (“Le mythe de Sisyphe”, 1942), Zitateheft 2009

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)

God does not give you a wife to frustrate you but to complement you.

Howard G. Hendricks – American Professor at the Dallas Theological Seminary (1924-2013), Quotations book 2008