“ For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. ”
- Christina Rossetti- Copy
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“ Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
- 1.2K
“ These relatives were theorizing and telling her who did it. I think she's totally convinced he did it because the relatives told her he did. ”
- James Long- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
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“ God gives us our relatives — thank God he lets us choose our friends. ”
- Ethel Watts Mumford- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ”
- George Ade- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. ”
- Ethel Watts Mumford- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. ”
- Jacques Delille- Copy
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“ Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 2K
“ Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. ”
- Nicholson Baker- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ”
- Barbara Kingsolver- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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