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To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to read more
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can read more
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
amicitia munus expletum sit.]
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because read more
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you read more
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you read more
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends read more
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.
