
“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
Nahj al-Balagha
“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, Vol. I, The Third Edition (1742), Book II, Ch. 2, Article 3: 'Of the different sorts of poems', p. 278
“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”
XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
The Prince in Waiting
“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variant: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”