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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. - Francis Quarles There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) Should auld acquaintance be forget, Though they return with scars. - Allan Ramsay (1), his version of poem, see his "Tea-Table Miscellany" A friend in need is a friend indeed. - John Ray (Wray) Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. - Armand Jean du Plessis Duc de Richelieu Friendship requires deeds. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) The most elevated and pure souls cannot hear, even from the lips of the most contemptible men, these words, "friendship," "sensibility," "virtue," without immediately attaching to them all the grandeur of which their heart is susceptible. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship? two bodies and one soul. - Joseph Roux Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. - Joseph Roux The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. - Joseph Roux To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus) To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.] - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (XX), from Cataline's Oration to his Associates We call friendship the love of the Dark Ages. - Constance Pipelet de Salm Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness. - Mademoiselle Madeleine de Scuderi (Scudery)(known as Sapho) If two men are united, the wants of neither are any greater, in some respects, than they would be were they alone, and their strength is superior to the strength of two separate men. - Etiene Pivert de Senancour Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. [Lat., Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium Friendship is full of dregs. - William Shakespeare There is flattery in friendship. - William Shakespeare Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Amiens at II, vii) By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks, So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities; But out upon this half-faced fellowship! - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at I, iii) Call you that backing of friends? A plague upon such backing! Give me them that will face me. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv) Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at II, i) Displaying page 10 of 13 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13
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