Community Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Men become friends by a community of pleasures.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Friendship Inspirational Men Pleasure
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by… — Ptolemy 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
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices;… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image