relationships Quotes

People generally despise where they flatter.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

In hard times and other misfortunes, true friends are a safe place. They keep young people out of trouble, comfort and help the old in their weakness, and encourage those in their prime to do good deeds.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble... ...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of... ...

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.