William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"I will give thrice so much land to any well-deserving friend; but in the way of bargain, mark me, I will cavil on the ninth part of a hair."
Shakespeare, William
Tag: friend
Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.''
The Talmud
The Talmud
Man has three friends on whose company he relies.
- First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts.
- Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there.
- The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
