Amicitia Quotes

#1. It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. People don't stop at a size 12. I feel like there's a big thing missing where you can't dress to your mood above a certain number.

Melissa McCarthy

#3. It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.

Joshua Sasse

#4. Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

Jack Abbott

#5. In the face of a true friend a man sees, as it were, a second self. - CICERO, De Amicitia I

Anne Fortier

#6. To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

Sallust

#7. Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Susan Griffin

#8. Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

David Letterman