
“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.”
As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48
“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.”
As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48
Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
“There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.”
Misc.
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“(The Facebook campaign) "is a bit of a feel-good, but it is better than nothing"”
Quoted in the US Wired Magazine (April 2007) http://archive.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/10/myanmarfacebook
Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)
“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”
No. 536
Aphorisms on Man (1788)