"Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Shoes Quotes #Old Friends Quotes #Supportive Quotes

“A library is all the university you will ever need.”
“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.
“But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”
“Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.”
“A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.”
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.”
“...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.”
“Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.”

Source : Stephanie Dowrick (2013). “The Almost Perfect Marriage: One Minute Relationship Skills”, p.4, Allen & Unwin

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