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“Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.”

Book Age Friendship Wise Get Better Good Book

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.”

Thinking Men Art Age Beautiful Literature Sound Friendship Intellectual Tradition Performances Ripe Brethren

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“The youth is better than the old age of friendship.”

Age Friendship Youth Old Age

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.”

Mind Believe Ideas Age Courses I Believe Growth Friendship Tree Activity Essentials Rings Evolve Expanding Hormones Trunks Exchanging Growth Hormones Exchanging Ideas

Author:Mary McCarthy

“I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”

Men Age Friendship Moral Friends Highest Men And Women Planes Platonic Platonic Friendship

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”

War Age Friendship Gone Dying Aging Engaged Sentimental Seventies Battlefields

Author:St. Jerome

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.”

World Way Looks Book States Age Earth Turns Friendship Community Garden Educational Unconscious Patches

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine”

“Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.”

Knows Men Giving Age Young Friendship Failing Rocks Honest Depends Integrity Lows Fearless Firm Faithful Fragments Adversaries Adviser Stand Firm

Book:Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1

Source: Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1

“I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.”

People Kind Age Friendship Differences Dog Essentials Pet

Book:The confessions of a lost dog

Source: The confessions of a lost dog

“I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that”

“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.”

“So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.”

Stills Age Friendship White Hair Lovers Fellows Lively Friendship Love White Hair

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.”

Years Wells I Can Age Friendship Bears Prove Female Years Ago Letters Proportion Dozen Pope Arithmetic Forsaken Vex Female Friends

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.”