"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other." ― Oliver Goldsmith Topic(s): Friendship More From Oliver Goldsmith "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." "I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." "Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook." More In Friendship "I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."― Edward Gibbon "I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."― Woodrow Wilson "Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places."― Charles de Lint