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

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Acquaintance Quotes, Friendship Quotes

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain

Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a...

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a...