Quotes About Friendship

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant.

He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.

Vénérons le chien. Le chien (quel drôle de bête!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue.

Seated on a paving-stone near Enjolras, Courfeyrac continued to jeer at the cannon, and every passage of that sinister cloud of projectiles that is called grapeshot, accompanied by its monstrous din, drew from him an ironical comment. 'You're wearing yourself out, you poor old brute. You're getting hoarse. You're not thundering, only spluttering. It's breaking my heart.' His remarks were greeted with laughter.

Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Somestimes the stomach paralyzes the heart.

Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In

The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts. Above all things, do not degenerate into a man, his friend would say to him. Never did the wolf bite: the man did now and then. At least, to bite was the intent of Ursus. He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler. To live, also; for the stomach has to be consulted.

He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.

Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.

On ne se connaît pas tant qu'on n'a pas bu ensemble.

Books are cold, but sure friends indeed.

To confide is sometime to deliver into a person's power

But you must have a ladys maid. Don't I have Marius?

He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In

Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic

The two friends set out towards Eve's Apple. It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them.

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love

Mes amis! qui de vous, qui de nous n'a souvent, Quand le deuil à l'oeil sec, au visage rêvant, Cet ami sérieux qui blesse et qu'on révère, Avait sur notre front posé sa main sévère, Qui de nous n'a cherché le calme dans un chant!

When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs.

É por isso que me dou muito bem com ele. Ajeitou-se a todas as minhas rugas, não me incomoda nada, moldou-se a todas as minhas disformidades, é complacente com todos os meus movimentos; só o sinto porque me aquece. Os fatos velhos são como os velhos amigos.

Come si chiamano i vostri due amici? – Pietro il Grassatore e Battista Gabbagonzi. – Uhm! - fe' l'arcidiacono; - son nomi che si addicono a un'opera buona come una bombarda ad un altar maggiore.

Alone is overrated," he said simply.