Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus
1. "The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
Woody Allen
2. "Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."
W. L. George
Other categories: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy
3. "Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."
Spanish proverb
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
4. "When you jumped in here, you were my enemy and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me, and I killed you. Forgive me, comrade."
Maxwell Anderson, "All Quiet On The Western Front"
Other categories: Life and Death
5. "Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."
Peter De Vries
6. "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
Mao Zedong
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
7. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."
Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"
Other categories: Love -:- Richness and Money
8. "Critical remarks are only made by people who love you."
Federico Mayor
Other categories: Forgiveness
9. "Love! Hate! Is there no third?"
Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"
Other categories: Love
10. "Life without a friend is death without a witness."
Spanish proverb
11. "A man’s fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man’s friends are his magnetisms."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"
Other categories: Human
12. "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"
13. "To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction."
Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
Other categories: Love
14. "The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, "Catilina"
15. "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
Joseph Addison, "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
16. "Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn’t eaten any."
Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"
17. "Tolerance is only another name for indifference."
William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer’s Notebook"
Other categories: Egoism -:- Good and Evil
18. "The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together — the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation."
John Berger
Other categories: Love
19. "Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
Cesare Pavese
20. "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
21. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Henry David Thoreau
Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Work and Laziness
22. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King
Other categories: Oration and Silence
23. "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Albert Camus
24. "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."
English proverb
Other categories: Richness and Money
25. "Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."
Brian Clough
Other categories: Life and Death
26. "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
Leo Buscaglia
Other categories: Nature and Animals
27. "Don't believe them who say that they will follow you like your shadow; because shadows disappear in darkness."
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28. "Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself."
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Other categories: Anger
29. "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Other categories: Forgiveness
30. "A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy."
George Savile
31. "Life is to be fortified by many friendships."
Sydney Smith
Other categories: Life and Death
32. "One enemy is too much."
George Herbert
33. "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."
Francesco Petrarca
34. "Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
35. "A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Other categories: Art and Culture
36. "The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other."
Ashleigh Brilliant
Other categories: Love
37. "Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends."
Jean Cocteau, "Diary of an Unknown"
38. "Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his."
Franklin P. Jones
Other categories: Success and Fame
39. "A true friend walks in when the world walks out."
Walter Winchell
40. "A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend."
Eric Hoffer
Other categories: Peace and War
41. "Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
Gene Fowler
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
42. "Every good friend once was a stranger."
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43. "There are two types of people who can tell you the truth about yourself: an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
Antisthenes
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
44. "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
Baltasar Gracian
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
45. "A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks beside you in the shadows."
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46. "Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Other categories: Good and Evil
47. "Friends [...] are God's apology for relations."
Hugh Kingsmill Lunn
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
48. "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
Lewis Mumford, "The Brown Decades"
Other categories: Youth and Age
49. "I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Other categories: Richness and Money
50. "To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two."
Norman Douglas
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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