Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.
acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit.
We don't even know we are brothers and sisters.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only th...
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to inven...
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Nanak dukhiya sab sansaar!This whole world is ridden with Sorrow.Stop comparing as we all have a fucked up life, family and job! No matter what others show and potray! ;)"Jhaak ke dekhoge (I mean kare...
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
I wish everybody would go back into the closet.
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary...
A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats--"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"--and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related to goats, since it seems a lot more plausible to...