Friends are the nearest relations. [ Proverb ]
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Penitence and innocence are near relations. [ Proverb ]
The relations of all living end in separation. [ Mahabharata ]
Friends, those relations that we make ourselves.
One true friend is better than a hundred relations. [ Italian Proverb ]
A good friend is worth more than a hundred relations. [ French Proverb ]
Friends - those relations that one makes for one's self. [ Deschamps ]
It is chance that gives us relations, but we give friends to ourselves. [ Delille ]
After a good dinner one could forgive anybody, even one's own relations. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Dependants, friends, relations, love himself, ravaged by woe, forget the tender tie. [ Thomson ]
It is better to live in a haunted forest than to live amongst relations after the loss of wealth. [ Hitopadesa ]
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. [ Haliburton ]
Permanence is what I advocate in all human relations; nomadism, continual change, is prohibitory of any good whatsoever. [ Carlyle ]
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [ Varro ]
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Mathematics is the science which investigates the consequences which are logically deducible from any given or admitted relations between magnitudes or numbers. [ T. Galloway ]
Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. [ Daniel Webster ]
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
It seems as if all classes and conditions in life might learn to get more happiness out of their work. To accomplish this, more sentiment and less worry must be put into our efforts, which must also be viewed in their larger relations and possibilities. [ Henry D. Chapin ]
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? [ Haliburton ]
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see: and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [ Whipple ]
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life. [ Geo. S. Hillard ]
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]