Separation

Famous quotes containing the word separation:

“Reunion after long separation is even better than one’s wedding night.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes—castes—is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)