Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's presentâlove, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasureâthe wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]
Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. -Unknown-.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.