The Arvon Friends Office has been collecting some delicious words on friendship. Here’s some turns of phrase for all friends out there. (Thanks to Sara for compiling these.)
Jane Austen -
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Italian Proverb -
He who finds a friend, finds a treasure
Jane Austen -
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
C S Lewis -
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”
Sir Francis Bacon -
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Oscar Wilde -
True friends stab you in the front.
W H Auden -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
William Blake -
The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship.
Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Mark Twain -
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
William Shakespeare (from Much Ado about Nothing) -
Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love . . .
Is it just me or is our writing community somewhat inept at this whole (not so) new phemonena called the internet?
No matter where i go – writing forum, blog or community – the lack of interaction found in other web based communities is very apparent. Probably MySpace has got it working the best…
What do you think the issue is? Where are all the replies, the interaction, the passion? Are we all becoming too prosaic? I’m interested to see where this is all going…
Words make us who we are. Discourse Analysis can detect nature and nuture. The Poet and the
Author are reflected in their work.
Perhaps a topic per week or month for discussion or comment might be useful.