Quotes About Loyalty

Do you remember what I said about friendship? 'It's about someone who walks into your life, says I'm here for you, and then proves it.

Vertrouw mensen,' zei hij tegen me, 'totdat ze je een reden geven om dat niet te doen. En ga daarna nooit meer met je rug naar ze toe staan.

Cuando alguien te engaña, la primera vez es culpa suya, la segunda vez, la culpa es tuya.

Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own

There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar.

Few of us have chosen our clubs, they have simply been presented to us; and so as they slip from Second Division to the Third, or sell their best players, or buy players who you know can't play, or bash the ball the seven hundreth time towards a nine foot centre-forward, we simply curse, go home, worry for a fortnight and then come back to suffer all over again.

I had discovered after the Swindon game that loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with.

Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of "Sailing": 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don't care.' In fact I have always felt that the song is a little melodramatic, and that if anyone should sing it, it is Arsenal. Every Arsenal fan, the youngest and the oldest, is aware that no one likes us, and every day we hear that dislike reiterated.

I had discovered after the Swindon game that loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with. Marriages are nowhere near as rigid - you won't catch any Arsenal fans slipping off to Tottenham for a bit of extra-marital slap and tickle, and though divorce is a possibility (you can just stop going if things get too bad), getting hitched again is out of the question.

Tucker, please put him down, said Annie. You're frightening Jackson. He's not, said Jackson. It's cool. I don't like that guy anyway. Punch him, Dad.

She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste. She had stuck up for Spandau Ballet in just the same way at school, even after she had stopped liking them.

My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a few hours before the Grimsby game on the 28th of Decemebr; his girlfriend had to take his car keys away from him because he kept making dazed attempts to drive from Fulham up to the Abbey.

I had discovered after the Swindon game that loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with. Marriages are nowhere near as rigid - you won't catch any Arsenal fans slipping off to Tottenham for a bit of extra-marital slap and tickle, and though divorce is a possibility (you can just stop going if things get too bad), getting hitched again is out of the question.

By now I felt guilty about what I had got my father into. He had developed no real affection for the club, and would rather, I think, have taken me to any other First Division ground. I was acutely aware of this, and so a new source of discomfort emerged: as Arsenal huffed and puffed their way towards 1-0 wins and nil-nil draws I wriggled with embarrassment, waiting for Dad to articulate his dissatisfaction.

Top five things I miss about Laura...Two: she's got character...she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.

The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate the very

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina.

Todo príncipe prudente ha desechado las tropas auxiliares y refugiado en las propias; y ha preferido perder con las suyas que ganar con las otras

Licenció el antiguo ejército y creó uno nuevo; dejó las amistades viejas y se hizo de otras; y así, rodeado por soldados y amigos adictos, pudo construir sobre tales cimientos cuanto edificio quiso; y lo que tanto le había costado adquirir, poco le costó conservar.

El príncipe prudente debe preferir rodearse de hombres de buen juicio a los que dará la libertad de decirle la verdad

é que os homens, com satisfação, mudam de senhor pensando melhorar e esta crença faz com que lancem mão de armas contra o senhor atual, no que se enganam porque, pela própria experiência, percebem mais tarde ter piorado a situação.