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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.
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend read more
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation read more
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, read more
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, read more
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
- George Bancroft,
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are read more
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked
