When we\'re trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
Albright, Madeleine
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
Arthur Guiterman
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate.
William James
Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Edward Young
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay, A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends.
Amber Seree Allen
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Benjamin Franklin
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
When we exaggerate our friends tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Socrates