Our charity indeed should be universal, and extend to all mankind; but it is by no means convenient that our friendships and familiarities should do so too.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
This misfortune is, no doubt, greater and more common in the higher classes, but lesser men are not exempt from it, since there is always an interest in making men love us. Thus human life is but a perpetual illusion, an interchange of deceit and flattery. No one speaks of us in our presence as in our absence. The society of men is founded on this universal deceit: few friendships would last if every man knew what his friend said of him behind his back, though he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.
Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias=--Be our enmities for time, our friendships for eternity.
Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole=--While you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate the old.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts.
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest things we know.
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._
In pretio pretium est; dat census honores, / Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet=--Worth lies in wealth; wealth purchases honours, friendships; the poor man everywhere is neglected.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.--_Colton._
Broken friendships may be sowthered (soldered), but never sound.
Multas amicitias silentium diremit=--Silence, or neglect, dissolves many friendships.
~Indigestion.~--Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.--_Sydney Smith._
Many a time, . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
over the other.
-- Honore DeBalzac
You like to form new friendships and make new acquaintances.
~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.
The first time the young foreigner allowed himself to reproach her, she lifted her beautiful head and, half turning to him, said firmly: "That's just like a man--selfish and cruel! I expected nothing else. A woman sacrifices herself for you, she suffers, and this is her reward! What right have you, monseigneur, to demand an account of my attachments and friendships? He is a man who has been more than a father to me!" The prince was about to say something, but Helene interrupted him.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they called each other thou; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized."
Vanity and coarse pride give gold; friendship and love give flowers.
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.
11:23. And after friendships, he will deal deceitfully with him: and he shall go up, and shall overcome with a small people.
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._
King Louis was brought into Italy by the ambition of the Venetians, who desired to obtain half the state of Lombardy by his intervention. I will not blame the course taken by the king, because, wishing to get a foothold in Italy, and having no friends there--seeing rather that every door was shut to him owing to the conduct of Charles--he was forced to accept those friendships which he could get, and he would have succeeded very quickly in his design if in other matters he had not made some mistakes. The king, however, having acquired Lombardy, regained at once the authority which Charles had lost: Genoa yielded; the Florentines became his friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara, the Bentivogli, my lady of Forli, the Lords of Faenza, of Pesaro, of Rimini, of Camerino, of Piombino, the Lucchese, the Pisans, the Sienese--everybody made advances to him to become his friend. Then could the Venetians realize the rashness of the course taken by them, which, in order that they might secure two towns in Lombardy, had made the king master of two-thirds of Italy.
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.
23:12. But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:
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.
"I know it, madame," replied the count; "but we are in France, and not in Arabia, and in France eternal friendships are as rare as the custom of dividing bread and salt with one another."
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.
The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves are always accompanied by such friendships.
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.