Quotes About Friendship

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?"

Au clair de la lune,Mon ami Pierrot,Prête-moi ta plumePour écrire un mot.

Ami, entends-tuLe vol noir—des corbeaux—sur nos plaines…Ami, entends-tuLes cris sourds—du pays—qu'on enchaine.

When you befriend old men you realize how innocent the human race is.

The great majority of people are sorry for themselves at the physical separation, not happy and glad that their friend has gone to a greater, grander, more beautiful life.

Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai

One in the morning," Bunny says, "and one at night. Sometimes, kid, we all need a little help shoveling the shit.

Werner sleeps in a tiny dormitory with seven other fourteen-year-olds. The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. Frederick is new too. He's from Berlin. His father is assistant to an ambassador. When Frederick speaks, his attention floats up, as though he's scanning the sky for something.

They lie on their stomachs and page through comics, feeling the pleasure of being outside of school, glancing at each other now and then as if curious to learn whether their friendship will continue to exist in another place.

from Volkheimer to Werner.

She stands alone in Madame Manec's room and smells peppermint, candle wax, six decades of loyalty. Housemaid, nurse, mother, confederate, counselor, chef—what ten thousand things was Madame Manec to Etienne?

Etienne," Marie-Laure whispers, "are you ever sorry that we came here? That I got dropped in your lap and you and Madame Manec had to look after me? Did you ever feel like I brought a curse into your life?" "Marie-Laure," he says without hesitation. He squeezes her hand with both of his. "You are the best thing that has ever come into my life.

Then the women start up again, scheming, and gabbling. Madame Manec brushes Marie-Laure's hair in long absentminded strokes. "Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in her eyes?

true friends are those who rid us of life's burdens

It was about such people that he complained to Atticus: "I will only say this, and I believe you know I am right: it was not enemies but jealous friends who ruined me.

He sat beside Antony in his carriage and arrived unescorted at his colleague's quarters in the city.

but to bear in mind what Caesar, who had eliminated all his enemies, suffered at the hands of his closest friends.

The first was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a year younger than Gaius.

Letters to His Friends).

Pompey, jealous of Caesar's military achievements in Gaul, became increasingly friendly with the optimates.

Antony and Cleopatra renewed their friendship at the respective ages of forty-five and thirty-three.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra and Antony now dissolved their celebrated Society of Inimitable Livers and instituted another, which was at least its equal in elegance, luxury and extravagance, and which they called the Order of the Inseparable in Death. Their friends joined it on the understanding that they would end their lives together, and they set themselves to charm away the days with a succession of exquisite supper parties.

The plot was betrayed, but Varus could not bring himself to distrust his friendly Germans