~Disappointment.~--Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of existence are strewn with them.--_Mme. de Staël._
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
A hedge between, keeps friendship green.
A sudden thought strikes me,--let us swear an eternal friendship.
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.--_Sir J. Mackintosh._
The hatred which is grafted on extinguished friendship must bring forth the most deadly fruits.
If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is to darken the day, I will have none of it.
"Love is friendship set on fire."
If I speak to thee in friendship's name, Thou think'st I speak too coldly; If I mention love's devoted flame, Thou say'st I speak too boldly.
Suspicion is the bane of friendship.
Plus in amicitia valet similitudo morum quam affinitas=--Similarity of manners conduces more to friendship than relationship.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Vanity and coarse pride give gold; friendship and love give flowers.
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, and friendship with the man of much information,--these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued,--these are injurious.--_Confucius._
Kindred weaknesses induce friendship as often as kindred virtues.
Parvum non parv? amiciti? pignus=--A slight pledge of no small friendship.
I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.
How can modern men today make Christ, the absent Christ, their most constant companion still? The answer is that Friendship is a spiritual thing. It is independent of Matter, or Space, or Time. That which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in my friend is not his body but his spirit. The Changed Life, p. 37.
Led by illusions romantic and subtle deceptions of fancy, / Pleasure disguised as duty, and love in the semblance of friendship.
We were halves throughout, and to that degree that methinks by outliving him I defraud him of his part.
A friendship will be young at the end of a century, a passion old at the end of three months.
Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.
Would he who had enjoyed the friendship of the King of England, the King of Poland, and the Queen of Sweden have thought he should come to want, and need a retreat or shelter in the world?
In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
The world is full of inconstancy; its friendship ceases the moment there is no advantage to be expected from us.--BL. JOHN TAULER.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing.
Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need.
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession.
And where are they not set? Riches and poverty, sickness and strength, prosperity and adversity, friendship and loneliness, the work and the want of it--each has its snare, wherein not only are the unwary caught, but the wise and the watchful sometimes fall a prey. Little things, mere threads, hardly worth guarding against--yet they are strong enough to hold us and hinder us, and may be the beginning of our destruction.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things / Keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship.
I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship.
Ceremony was but devised at first / To set a gloss on faint deeds ... / But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
Love and religion are both stronger than friendship.
Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; / Expertus metuit=--The cultivation of friendship with the great is pleasant to the inexperienced, but he who has experienced it dreads it.
En amour comme en amitie, un tiers souvent nous embarrasse=--A third person is often an annoyance to us in love as in friendship.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Soupcon est d'amitie poison=--Suspicion is the poison of friendship.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Judge before friendship, then confide till death, / Well for thy friend, but nobler far for thee.
They that mean to make no use of friends will be at little trouble to gain them: and to be without friendship is to be without one of the first comforts of our present state.
Sine amicitia vitam esse nullam=--There is no life without friendship.
The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless.
That is friendship which is not feigned.
The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus--seen plainest when all around is dark.
There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of friendship.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.--ST. TERESA.
Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time.
Feasting makes no friendship.
To pity the unfortunate is not contrary to sensuality, rather is it easy to render this evidence of friendship, and to gain the reputation of a tender heart, without giving.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Life is not long enough for art, not long enough for friendship.
Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
Our companionship with Him, like all true companionship, is a spiritual communion. All friendship, all love, human and Divine, is purely spiritual. It was after He was risen that He influenced even the disciples most. The Changed Life, p. 38.
That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together.
I love to watch to him while he sleeps. Besides everything else he is really my best friend now. It's a different kind of friendship...It makes me wish I could share every day with him.
Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love.
What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.--_Thoreau._
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art.
To visit too often is tiresome to your friends, and to visit too rarely is less than what is due to friendship.
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
Experience has taught me that the only friends we can call our own, who can have no change, are those over whom the grave has closed; the seal of death is the only seal of friendship.--_Byron._
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Our esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.
Hat man die Liebe durchgeliebt / Fangt man die Freundschaft an=--After love friendship (_lit._ when we have lived through love we begin friendship).
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a great difference in the fruit.--_Socrates._
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis, / Et torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent, / An sit amicitia dignus=--Kings are said to press with many a cup, and test with wine the man whom they desire to try whether he is worthy of their friendship.
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Lovely concord and most sacred peace doth nourish virtue, and fast friendship breed.--_Spenser._
Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
_Types._--When once the secret is disclosed it is impossible not to see it If the Old Testament be read in this light, we shall see if the sacrifices were real; if the fatherhood of Abraham was the true cause of the friendship of God; that the promised land was not the true place of rest. These were then but types. If in the same way we examine all those ordained ceremonies, and all those commandments which are not of charity, we shall see that they are types.
Common distress is a great promoter both of friendship and speculation.
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
In the division of the inheritance, friendship standeth still.
Pity and friendship are passions incompatible with each other.
Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship.
Kleine Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft=--Little gifts keep friendship green.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community.
Let us hold together while life lasts. Hand in hand we may achieve more than each alone by himself. We are much less afraid when we are two together. The chief condition of all spiritual friendship is perfect frankness. There is no better proof of true friendship than sincere reproof, where such reproof is necessary. We are occupied in one great work, and in this consciousness all that is small must necessarily disappear.
True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; . . . freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected,--these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
H?c prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati=--Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked.
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia vacuos esse decet=--All men, who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Love is deemed the tenderest= (_zarteste_) =of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.--_George MacDonald._
~Friendship.~--Friendship has steps which lead up to the throne of God, though all spirits come to the Infinite; only Love is satiable, and like Truth, admits of no three degrees of comparison; and a simple being fills the heart.--_Richter._
How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.
A sudden thought strikes me, / Let us swear an eternal friendship.
The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
Et monere, et moneri, proprium est ver? amiciti?=--To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship.
The more you fellowship with your spouse, the better your friendship will be with him or her. So take it to heart to draw near to the Lord daily; it will change your marriage.
Rien que s'entendre=--Nothing but good understanding.
The ivy, like the spider, takes hold with her hands in king's palaces, as every twig is furnished with innumerable little fingers, by which it draws itself close, as it were, to the very heart of the old rough stone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to an abundance of conceits about fidelity, friendship, and woman's love, which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. It might also symbolize the higher love, unconquerable and unconquered, which has embraced this ruined world from age to age, silently spreading its green over the rents and fissures of our fallen nature.--_Mrs. Stowe._
It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of _old_ wood to _take_, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.--_Whately._
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
The noblest man is he whose friendship may be easily obtained, and whose enmity can be incurred only with difficulty.
Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in matters which do not require the aid of friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service, if your friendship wants the basis of a thorough practical acquaintance.
The love of man to woman is a thing common, and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.--_Plato._
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
A main part of friendship is cheerfulness.
Never contract a friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.--_Confucius._
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
Fervet olla, vivit amicitia=--As long as the pot boils, friendship lasts.
True friendship often shows itself in refusing at the right time, and love often grants a hurtful good.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavours.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit,[423-2] Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.
The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.
When did friendship take / A breed for barren metal of his friend?
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me."
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love. Erotic love is determined by the object; friendship is determined by the object; only love of one’s neighbor is determined by love. Therefore genuine love is recognizable by this, that its object is without any of the more definite qualifications of difference, which means that this love is recognizable only by love.