"Happy is the house that shelters a friend." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happy is the house that shelters a friend."
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
-
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
-
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
-
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
-
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
-
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
-
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
-
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
-
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
-
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
-
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
-
A little praise goes a great ways.
See all 2,823 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson »
More Friend Quotes
This quote is filed under Friend Quotes,
one of 8,728 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
-
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
-
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
-
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
-
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
-
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
-
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
-
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
-
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's…
— Kevin Bacon
-
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
-
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
-
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue,…
— Hosea Ballou
See all 8,728 Friend Quotes »