Nearest

Famous quotes containing the word nearest:

“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:24.

“Yet do I fear thy nature,
It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)