Friendship and Hostility

"A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Willa Cather "Shadows on the Rock"

Family and Loneliness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Uncle Vanya"

Friendship and Hostility

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship and Hostility

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

Chamfort

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."

Charles Bukowski

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."

John Dos Passos "The Ground We Stand On"

Friendship and Hostility

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Norman Douglas "South Wind"

Family and Loneliness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."

Woody Allen

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

W. L. George

Friendship and Hostility

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Spanish Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Friendship and Hostility

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

Peter De Vries

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

Mao Zedong

Friendship and Hostility

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer "Sappho"

Friendship and Hostility

Love

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Critical remarks are only made by people who love you."

Federico Mayor

Forgiveness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Love! Hate! Is there no third?"

Franz Grillparzer "Sappho"

Friendship and Hostility

Love

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Spanish Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Friendship and Hostility

Human

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, First Series"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Friendship and Hostility

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."

Gaius Sallustius Crispus "Catilina"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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..."

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham "A Writer's Notebook"

Egoism

Friendship and Hostility

Good and Evil

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Friendship and Hostility

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."

Cesare Pavese

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."

English Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough

Friendship and Hostility

Life and Death

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Leo Buscaglia

Friendship and Hostility

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Don't believe them who say that they will follow you like your shadow; because shadows disappear in darkness."

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Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself."

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Anger

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Forgiveness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships."

Sydney Smith

Friendship and Hostility

Life and Death

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"One enemy is too much."

George Herbert

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Francesco Petrarca

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Art and Culture

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Friendship and Hostility

Love

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends."

Jean Cocteau "Diary of an Unknown"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his."

Franklin P. Jones

Friendship and Hostility

Success and Fame

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A true friend walks in when the world walks out."

Walter Winchell

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)