Quotes by Authors - Page 175

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
Friendship is a serious affection the most sublime of all affections because it is founded on principle and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies the winds which fan the flame of love when judiciously or artfully tempered are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Anonymous
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
Ambrose Bierce
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart I'll stay there forever.
A.A. Milne
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Judith Crist
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
Pearl S. Buck
The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
Martha Mason
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
The richer your friends the more they will cost you.
Elizabeth Marbury
The rich know not who is his friend.
Anonymous
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.
G.K. Chesterton
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.
Michel de Montaigne
Friendship admits of differences of character as love does that of sex.
Anonymous
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne Tyler
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
Barbara Bush
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
Helene Iswolsky
My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.
Martha Martin
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
Florida Scott-Maxwell
If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.
Ann Landers
My helpless friend your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
O. Hallesby
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
Samuel Bowles
France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.
Thomas Jefferson
Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Anonymous
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Livy
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas Jerrold
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Anonymous
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Anonymous
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Pearl Bailey
It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.
Mary Webb
Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
Stephen Sondheim
Life is hard. Next to what?
Anonymous
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
Michel de Montaigne
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.
Anonymous
Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
G.K. Chesterton
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Sir Thomas Browne
He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.
Anonymous
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
Anonymous
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.
Edgar Watson Howe
The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.
Etty Hillesum
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Corra May Harris