Quotes of: Old-friend Keyword

The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.

South African

Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the conflict and assigning each aspect to a different character. Marjie Rynearson, for instance...

What's Holding You Back 8 Critical Choices For Women's Success

do you love her" Wulfgar asked suddenly, and the drow was off his guard. "Of course I do," Drizzt responded truthfully. "As I love you, and Bruenor, and Regis." "I would not interfere-" Wulfgar started to say, but he was stopped by Drizzt's chuckle. ...

R.A. Salvatore

Sweeney Todd: [sings] Rest now, my friends. Mrs. Lovett: [sings in unison] Never you fear, Mr. Todd. Sweeney Todd: Soon I'll unfold you. Mrs. Lovett: [unison] You can move in here, Mr. Todd. Sweeney Todd: Soon you'll know... Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovet...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends.

Chinese

You can accompany a friend for a thousand miles but at some time you must take your leave.

Chinese

Ain't the best prayin' jest bein' with God and talkin' a while, like He's a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you've come in a-hopin' to git a bargain?

Cold Sassy Tree

What you're going to do is apologize to Lucian. My f**k partner, my lover, my protector. And my best friend. Right now."?

Dom Wars: Round Four

There. We can be friends now." "Someone like you could never be my friend." "Why ever not?" "Because I'm a nice person, and you're a sick, twisted bitch.

Dark Winter: Crescent Moon

If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

You see, I’ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every night in order not to enjoy a comfort of which his friend had been deprived.

The Fall

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Fear Nothing

My mother is my friend Who shares with me her bread All my hopelessness cured! Her company makes me secured!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

If I don't get a girlfriend soon (number one on the list) I may have to resort to drastic measures like surgery (me) or hypnosis (them).

Half My Facebook Friends Are Ferrets

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

American Wife

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

The Blue Castle

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

Black List

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Behold the Man

See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.

Bittersweet