A Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

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Friendship Absence Destroyed Increased Like Like Love Long Love May Short Though

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Samuel Johnson

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Moliere

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Samuel Richardson

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

Joe Bob Briggs

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

Laurence Sterne

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Baruch Spinoza

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

C.J. Langenhoven

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron

I`m not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I`m, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.

Karl Rove

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

George Washington

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

Brian D. McLaren

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.