Chapter FRIEND to FRUIT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep;
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?

Goldsmith.—The Hermit, Verse 19.

Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg’d a partner in the trade.

Gay.—Fable XXIII.

Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.

Gay.—Fable LIX. Line 1.

Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 1. (Claudio.)

A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Pope’s Homer.—The Iliad, Book IX. Line 725.

But a few frienships wear, and let them be
By nature and by fortune fit for thee.

Cowley.—Martial, Book X. Epigram 47.

FRISKING.—Frisking light in frolic measures:
Now pursuing, now retreating,
Now in circling troops they meet;
To brisk notes in cadence beating,
Glance their many twinkling feet.

Gray.—Progress of Poesy, I. Stanza 3.

FRUIT.—Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis, Chap. II. Verse 17.

FRUIT.—In the day we eat of this fair fruit, our doom is, we shall die!

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX.

The tree is known by his fruit.

St. Matthew, Chap. XII. Verse 33; St Luke, Chap. VI. Verse 44.

To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,
Or die in the adventure.

Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act I. Scene 1.

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3. (Iago to Roderigo.)