Fondness Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Download Open image “Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.” — Mary Wollstonecraft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fondness Friendship Inspirational Poor Substitutes
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Friendship often turns into love, but love never into friendship. Quite sad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
