False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Friends Quotes

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great...

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great...

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of...

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of...

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own...

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own...

Our first and last love is self-love.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the...

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the...

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the...

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the...

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals....

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals....

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by...

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by...

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid...

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid...

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to...

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to...

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one,...

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one,...

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.