“How long have we been friends, Dan?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”
Chapter 7 (p. 166).
Revelation Space (2000)
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“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
André Weil (1906–1998) French mathematician
From At home with André and Simone Weil by Sylvie Weil, p. 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=OdeDlT9-GBUC&pg=PA30 <br class="br">Quote About
“Are we long-lost friends, by chance?”
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
"No, we never got along all that well. Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you."
Simon Lewis and Magnus Bane, pg. 689
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 17 (The Tragedy of Munich), p .287 http://books.google.de/books?id=HzlT3t05OHoC&pg=PA287&dq=churchill+the+gathering+storm+have+been+averted+by+patience+and+persisting+good+will!&hl=de&sa=X&ei=1355T-39C4jHsgb0t-mWBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Context: Those who are prone, by temperament and character, to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign power, have not always been right. On the other hand, those whose inclination is to bow their heads, to seek patiently and faithfully for peaceful compromise, are not always wrong. On the contrary, in the majority of instances they may be right, not only morally, but from a practical standpoint. How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will! Religion and virtue alike lend their sanctions to meekness and humility, not only between men but between nations. How many wars have been precipitated by firebrands! How many misunderstandings which led to wars could have been removed by temporizing! How often have countries fought cruel wars and then after a few years found themselves not only friends but allies!
“However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.”
Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) English feminist, social reformer, and author
We have been Friends.
Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express
a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain — I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)