Quotes by English Authors - Page 17

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Thomas Fuller
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit either in business or reputation improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
William Hazlitt
Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller
It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
William Hazlitt
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
William Shakespeare
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
John Dryden
Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.
William Shakespeare
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
Frailty thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
Sir Francis Bacon
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Sir Thomas Browne
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare
He is rich that is satisfied.
Thomas Fuller
If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.
Francis Beaumont
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
William Shenstone
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
Enough is as good as a feast.
John Heywood
This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
William Law
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
Thomas Fuller
Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.
William Shakespeare
Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
Thomas Sprat
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
Joseph Addison
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Thomas Fuller
Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton
Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
Joseph Addison
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
John Sheffield
Lord what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.
Thomas Tusser
The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
William Shakespeare
You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.
George Chapman
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
John Dryden
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Robert Burton
Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Thomas Fuller
Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.
John Milton
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Sir Francis Bacon