Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon
Related Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend... FRANCIS BACON SR. Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. JEREMY THORPE But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death... FRANCIS BACON He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. OSCAR WILDE Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends. BIBLE Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ANONYMOUS Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. BIBLE No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. THOMAS FULLER No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. JEAN DE LA BRUYERE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA That man that killed another man is no criminal nor should he be consider an evil man for his action... ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. OSCAR WILDE You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. CASSANDRA CLARE His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the
prouerbe) is no man's for else. THOMAS ADAMS A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly ... JOHN OLIVER HOBBES Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ... AYN RAND A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends. SANTOSH KALWAR It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies. VIOLET HABERDASHER A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. HOMER Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause HOMER Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me most who lavishly commends. CHARLES CHURCHILL Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou... FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. How... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo... JEREMY TAYLOR By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She i... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels lik... RAJ KAPOOR The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ... JOHN TYLER A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid... SAMUEL BUTLER He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. EDDIE CANTOR He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him EDDY CANTOR Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and f... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can onl... MAX MULLER Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. HOMER A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and... MARVIN J. ASHTON His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm
Crested the world: his voice was propertied
As al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his fr... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority whic... JAMES SMITHSON The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Ke... MAX CLELAND Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall ... JOHN DONNE An honourable man is fair even to his enemies; a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but ... VACLAV HAVEL The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but t... VACLAV HAVEL He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spir... SOURCE UNKNOWN He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spir... SPANISH MAXIM He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spir... SPANISH PROVERB A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that h... CRISS JAMI A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has... RALPH WALDO EMERSON No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth t... THOMAS À KEMPIS You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER Man,His world & His dreams;When a man is placed aright in his world,he is most likely going to dream... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi... JOSEPH CONRAD The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a... ERIC HOFFER You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de... WILHELM REICH Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no m... BIBLE You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him... C.S. LEWIS When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him... C.S. LEWIS Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did... VOLKER ULLRICH Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no ... JOHN TYLER Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no l... JOHN TYLER If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... STEPHEN KING One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. OSCAR WILDE He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither s... PHILIP ZALESKI There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spi... CONN IGGULDEN The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this n... EDMUND BURKE Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage ... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his... FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his... FRANCIS BACON, SR. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his... FRANCIS BACON SR. When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no... NOAH WEBSTER When a mute man sins, it's not with his tongue.
When a blind man sins, it's not with his eyes.
When ... KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is h... ARISTOTLE A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursu... BIBLE There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h... ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is no such thing as a man without friends, just a man who thinks he should have none. RYAN THACKER Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his family. BRIAN JOHNSON If a man introduces his male friend to his extraordinary new girlfriend, his friend will think—I w... TARRYN FISHER Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many a... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many ... SENECA And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young m... JOHN CONNOLLY When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to... BEN JONSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... BEN JOHNSON
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upon an art, or upon a man.
- ... FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the w... FRANCIS BACON Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
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