Quotes
Quotes about End
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours.
It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!
Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide? Years have not seen, Time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe. - edited by John Payne Collier,
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
