Mutual Quotes - Page 19

• What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

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• The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Appreciation, Real, Believe

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• Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Times, Pleasure

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

  Joseph Addison

  Taken, Eye, Blessing

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.114

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• There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

  Joseph Addison

  Office, Together, Magnificence

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.202

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• Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

  Lois Wyse

  Hate, Love Is, Glue

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• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Racism, Typical

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

  Edith Wharton

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2743, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Vanity, Amusement

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.526

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• How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Friendship, Men, Yield

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

  Bill Vaughan

  Struggle, Animal, Law

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• Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

  Thomas Paine

  Fear, Mutual Love, Links

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.17

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• A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

  Rebecca West

  Justice, Legal System, Steps

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.40, iUniverse

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• Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

  Margaret Fuller

  Friends, Stars, Heart

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• When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

  Sara Coleridge

  Country, Blessed, Past

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

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• All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

  Henry Clay

  Principles, Legislation, Concessions

  "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell", www.nbcnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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• All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

  Henry Clay

  Government, Humanity, Weakness

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

  Mary McCarthy

  Finals, Literature, Plagiarism

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• Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

  Isaac Barrow

  Sympathy, Together, Band

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• When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Passion, Fire, Ashes

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

  George Sand

  Cutting, Heaven, Patterns

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Arrogance, Mind

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics

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