It is a difficult thing to replace true friends. All are not friends that speak us fair. For indeed, if you are rich you will have many friends, but if you become poor you will have few, and will no longer be the same excellent man that you were. Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, As benefits forgot: As friend remembered not. There is a friend, which is only a friend in name. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness. Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat of violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted again. The wretched have no friends. Near friends, falling out, never reunite cordially. Seneca Proverb Theognis Proverb Shake- Ecclesiasticus Francis Walter Savage Landor Dryden Thomas Jefferson Cicero in "Ad Herennium" Eva Tre The swallows art at hand in the summer time, but in cold weather they are driven away. So false friends are at hand in life's clear weather; but as soon as they see the winter of fortune, they all fly away. A little love has destroyed many a great zevant friendship. Thomas Spanish Lord Byron Italian Proverb Sir John Vanbrugh George Prentice Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between two hearts that love! That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fell off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquility. Broken friendship may be soldered, but never made sound. And such the change the heart displays, Who finds himself without friends is like a body without a soul. Friendship, take heed; if woman interfere, A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you have to pay for him, no matter what that may be. |