Lost Friendship Quotes - Page 5

• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Life And Love, Love Is

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.216

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• I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Stars, Loss

  Telegram to Robert and Ethel Kennedy, 13 June 1962

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• If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Witty, Loss, Men

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• One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Loss

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• The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Loss, Warning, Should

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• A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

  Paul Valery

  Loss, Men, Gone

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• It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

  George W. Bush

  Sadness, Loss, Sorrow

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• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

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• Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friendship, Relationship, Joy

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• There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Talking, People

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

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• Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Friendship, Benefits

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXXV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin

  Friendship, Advice, May

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• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Police

  "Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

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• Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Humility, Loss, Pride

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• Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Strong, Wine

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.135

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• And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

  Clare Short

  Anger, Loss, Suffering

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• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.273

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• Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

  Thomas Fuller

  Book, Lost, Printer

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.162

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• You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

  Joseph Stalin

  Loss, Hair, Has Beens

  Joseph Stalin (1970). “Selected writings”

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• General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Men, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1099, Ageless Reads

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• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

  Euripides

  Grief, Loss, Land

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• Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

  Emil Zatopek

  Victory, Great Friend, Greater

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• Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

  James Norman Hall

  Car, Community, Identity

  "Under a Thatched Roof".

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• Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Experience, Illusion, Lost

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Joseph Roux, pt. 4, no. 28, 1886.

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