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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
Sep 10, 2025
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.
Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.
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.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
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.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
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.
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.