Quotes on Friends, Acquaintances, Strangers, Enemies
In this section, you'll find quotations and proverbs about the following topics: acquaintances, friend, friends, friendship, stranger, acquaintance, guest, neighbor, neighbors, companion, companions, group, groups, grouping, follower, followers, sisterhood, brotherhood, antipathy, hostile, hostility, enemy, enemies, strangers, and guests. Check out our main page for more high quality quotes on other subjects and categories.
I would not touch him with a pair of thongs. Proverb
The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you. Proverb
Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing. Proverb
The purse-strings are the most common ties of friendship. Proverb
We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors. Proverb
Lend your money and lose your friend. Proverb
It is good to have some friends, both in heaven and hell. Proverb
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. Proverb
A constant guest is never welcome. Proverb
He that is not with me is against me. The Bible, St Matthew, 12, 30
Absent, adj. Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Absent
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Acquaintance
Adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Adherent
Antipathy, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Antipathy
Beggar, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Beggar
Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Contempt
Discriminate, v. i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Discriminate
Friendship, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. [...] Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Friendship
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The life of Ambrose Bierce is a tissue of facts embroidered with legend. Born in Ohio in 1842, he joined and Indiana regiment during the Civil War, becoming a reconnaissance scout. The end of the war found him in San Francisco, and in 1867 he took a job in the mint, reading and studying in his spare time. A year later a lucky introduction to the editor of the local weekly News Letter brought Bierce a foothold in journalism and his own page "The Town Crier", giving him scope for his acid pen. One week in 1869, when topics for his usual diatribe had dried up, he filled the page with his first entry for a satirical dictionary. In 1872 he took London by storm, writing articles for Fun under the pseudonym of "Dod Grile". In 1875, he disappeared for two years, re-emerging as "Prattle" with a highly successful column for the Argonaut. In 1879 Bierce was mining the Black Hills for gold, then became editor of the run-down Wasp, and in 1887 William Randolph Hearst hired him for his own Examiner. During their happy association Bierce prepared for publication those of his dictionary entries he could trace. Little did he know that, in time, it would become one of the most pungent classics of American literature: Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
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In 1913 Bierce set off for Mexico, then in the throes of revolution, and was never seen again.
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Hostility, n. A peculiar sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classed as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Hostility
Oleaginous, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek.
Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilbeforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous". And the good prelate was ever afterwards known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Oleaginous
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. B. Franklin (Remark at signing of Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)
A Fav'rite has no friend!
T. Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, 36
"Presents," I often say, "endear Absents." C. Lamb, Essays of Elia, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
When one has nothing to do, then is the time to correspond with one's friends. E. A. Poe, Mellonta Tauta
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
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W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fifth, 4, 3, 60
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. We may outrun
By violent swiftness that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.
W. Shakespeare, Henry the Eighth, 1, 1, 140
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
J. Swift, On Poetry, 337
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. [It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.] Tacitus, Agricola, 30
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