Pastoral Resources

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?