“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Der getriwe ist friundes êren vrô:
der ungetriwe wâfenô
rüefet, swenne ein liep geschiht
sînem friunde und er daz siht.
Bk. 13, st. 675, line 17; p. 337.
Parzival
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Source: Remarks by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump following his New York meeting with al-Sisi on 22 September 2016 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/25/trump-s-crisis-nobody-is-talking-about-is-in-egypt.html
“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Source: Les Misérables
“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Books, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).