Nearest

Famous quotes containing the word nearest:

    The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
    C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

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

    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)