William Rose Benet Quotes

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'

I don't know if I'll have a better friend than Bill Paxton.

We have seen the most difficult times and were there to back each other. We have struggled, seen career highs and lows, and know we will be there for each other forever. We have together build our relationship strong. Himanshu is my biggest investment, and I can't let him go.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

God defend me from myself.