Friends and Relatives

Famous quotes containing the words friends and/or relatives:

    “A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies are made his friends and obey it as their own.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “When mother’s relatives visited,
    delicacies were cooked.
    When father’s guest arrrived,
    mother swelled and had a fit.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.