Oliver Wendell Holmes John Holden Benjamin Disraeli Burns Publilius Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Disloyalty, that hatefullest of sins, Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends. The friend of man, to vice a foe. His must be a very wretched fortune Syrus who has no enemy. Ali Ben Shakes peare Byron Jeremy Taylor James Russell Lowell Shake speare Benjamin Franklin He who has a thousand friends, Has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy Will meet him everywhere. Friendly counsel cuts off many foes. I force no friend, I fear no foe. Choose for your friend him that is wise and good. Happy long life with honor at the close, Friends' painless tears, the softened thought of foes. Friendless, hopeless. Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. MEN AND WOMEN FRIENDS It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuit or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgment, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing; for a woman friend desires to be proud of you. At the same time her constitutional timidity makes her more cautious than your male friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels you to do an imprudent thing. A man's best female friend is a wife of good sense and good heart, whom he loves, and who loves him. If he have that, he need not seek elsewhere. But supposing the man be without such a helpmate, female friendship he must have, or his intellect will be without a garden, and there will be many an unheeded gap even in its strongest fence. 115 Edward Lytton Men have known No fairer friendship than the fair have shown. A man should not repudiate the friendship of a woman, because it may lead to harm: he should cherish the friendship and beware of the harm. William William It is great happiness to form a sincere friendship with a woman. The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a consolation. A woman's love is often a misfortune; her friendship is always a boon. Women sometimes deceive the lover, never the friend. Curious that this topic of friendship is so especially alluring to a man and woman between whom friendship is impossible. Friendship is no respecter of sex, and perhaps it is more rare between the sexes than between two of the same sex. Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name. A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than a man's. Women need friendship more than men, because they are less self-sufficing. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices, but asks nothing. Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened. |