Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 690 |
| AUTHOR: | W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) |
| QUOTATION: | Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Senator George McGovern quoted these words of Yeats’s in his concession speech following the 1972 presidential election. |
| SUBJECTS: | Friendship |