We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one…

Quote by James Boswell

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may...

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may...

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf...

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf...

We must take our friends as they are.

We must take our friends as they are.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on...

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on...

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its...

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its...

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides,...

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides,...

VIf venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the...

VIf venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the...

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on...

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on...

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be...

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be...

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves...

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves...

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.