Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Mathematics
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Happiness
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Friendship
category

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

Category:
Friendship

One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. – D.H. Lawrence

Category:
Friendship

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

Category:
Friendship

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington

Category:
Friendship

Random Quotes

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Life

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called Rule Of The Bone. I didnt do a very good job. I didnt really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson

Category:
alone

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. – Harvey Fierstein

Category:
Art

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. – Junius

Category:
Men