It is a difficult task to have all men for your friends: it is sufficient not to have enemies. A bitter heart that bides its time and bites. The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them. Seneca Robert John William He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Better friends at a distance than neighbors and enemies. Italian One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Friends are as dangerous as enemies. Better to have a loving friend Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. Jonathan Alexander Pope De Quincy George Macdonald Hesiod George man Davidson Lord Avebury Nicholas Cicero Edmund Burke La Fontaine Shakes peare Lord Byron Theoph rastus Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. No enemy Is half so fatal as a friend estranged. It has been said that it is wise always to treat a friend remembering that he may become an enemy, and an enemy remembering that he may become a friend; and whate'er may be thought of the first part of the adage, there is certainly much wisdom in the latter. I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. Our enmities mortal, our friendships eternal. Angry friendship is sometimes as bad as calm enmity. An ignorant friend is dangerous e'er; An thou wilt be friends, be friends: an thou wilt not, why, then be enemies. Here's a sigh to those who love me, Here's a heart for every fate. A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. Better new friend than old foe. Foes sometimes befriend us more, our blacker deeds objecting, Than th' obsequious bosom guest, with false re spect affecting, Friendship is the Glass of Truth, our hidden stains detecting. The greatest enemy to man is man. Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Some great misfortune to portend, From our enemies we expect evil treatment, but when our friends abandon us the firmest minds find it hard to resist. The man who hates must cast contentment forth. Mutual love brings mutual delight,— If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God. Many people seem to take more pains and more pleasure in making enemies than in making friends. Spenser Thomas Campion Burton Charles Steven son Jonathan Bolingbrook's Letters Alain Richard Francis Lord |