Quotes About Loyalty

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A wicked wife, a foolish friend, an ill tongued servant and a house infested with serpents will undoubtedly bring death.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works. Besides, a reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful.

A woman isn't just married to her husband, but to his whole family

For sure they didn't share sips from the same cup, give each other cheer-up hugs, or swear to keep real important things secret, which are all things that are done by a real 100 percent for real friend.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

It may have seemed strange to you that a professing Christian father so freely gave you, a Christian son, to enlist in the volunteer service. My reason was that I regarded this as purely a defensive war. A war in defense of our homes and firesides, of our wives and children. Threatened with invasion and subjugation, it seemed to me that nothing was left us but stern resistance or abject submission.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow you away, and they didn't even have to say it was the Germans. That's desertion in the face of the enemy. While

No doubt I was getting a reputation for being efficient, but also for being somebody you could trust.

As I learned the ropes I learned that for many good and sound reasons the bosses and the captains sent a guy to whack you who was your friend. The obvious factor was that the shooter could get close to you in a lonely spot.

Wednesday night was the night that you went out with your wives, that way nobody was seen out with his cumare, his mistress, whatever you want to call it. Everybody knew not to be out with their cumare on Wednesday night. It was like an unwritten rule.

Now I understood why Russell would ask me to drive him to different places and wait for him in the car while he did a little business in somebody's house or in a bar or a restaurant. They did all their business in person and in cash, not over the phone or with banks. Russell Bufalino was as big as Al Capone had been, maybe bigger. I couldn't get over it. I

Y-Y-Yeah, and I d-do my own carpentry work, too." I was embarrassed because I was stammering. "That's what I wanted to hear. I understand you're a brother of mine." "That's right." I was keeping my sentences short and my words few. "Local 107. Since 1947." "Our friend speaks very highly of you.

In that same year, Provenzano "buried his differences" with popular reform-minded Local 560 member Anthony "Three Fingers" Castellito by having him strangled to death and buried on a farm in upstate New York by K.O. Konigsberg, Salvatore Sinno, and Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio. Ten

There were only two things that mattered in his life: the union and his family. Believe it or not, as strong as he was for the union, his wife and his daughter and his son came first to him.

Bill handed me an envelope. I handed it back to him. I told him, "I'll do a friend a favor." Russell had taught me well. Don't cheapen yourself. "If you do a friend a favor," Russell had said, "then sometimes he does you a favor." Bill

Nunz and Sammy were good people. I never cared for Pro himself. He'd kill you for nothing. One time he had a guy kissed for getting more votes than him.

I don't care how tough you are or how tough you think you are, if they want you you're theirs. It's usually your best friend that walks up to you talking about a football bet and you're gone. Like Giancana got it frying eggs and sausages in olive oil with an old friend he trusted. This