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Best Friends: a photographic celebration
The perfect tribute to a special friend, this stylish combination of classic black and white photographs and the very best quotations explores all the different moods of friendship.
Photographs are from the Hulton Getty Picture Library.
Photographs are from the Hulton Getty Picture Library.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2000
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Elizabeth Carr
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December 23, 2020
It is amazing just how many books have been written about friends and friendship and there are always many different quotations from many different people that explore the various moods of the relationship.
Writer Anne S Eaton says, 'The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends' and, to put more flesh on that particular bone, investigation reveals that she goes on to say 'And no investment on the street goes on to pay larger dividends./For life is more than stocks and bonds and love than rate per cent,/And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.' While the brief quotation is fine, it does seem even more meaningful with the added lines.
One comment I do not agree with is that of Lord Chesterfield who said, 'Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.' I am not quite sure how they are 'best friends' if one is thinking of them in this way. It is surely better to be thinking as Evelyn Waugh was when he said, 'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to be amused by them.' Yes, a much better thought!
The photographs in the book are chosen to ideally match the comments and one that does that admirably is one that depicts a youngster asleep in bed with his pet dog alongside him with his head just poking out from the turned sheets. And the comment is 'Nothing can come between true friends.' Very true indeed and the photograph puts that message across.
And Proverbs 27:17 also has it right with ''A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are.' Now who said that I wonder?!
The American writer and artist Elbert Hubbard commented, 'Your friend is the man [or woman] who knows all about you and still likes you.' And that is how it should be because as Hubert Horatio Humphrey stated, 'The greatest gift of life is friendship.' It certainly is and we all need it now at this horrible time as it helps to keep us going.
I never tire of reading this type of book and this one with the great photographs that accompany the quotations, is even better to enjoy.
Writer Anne S Eaton says, 'The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends' and, to put more flesh on that particular bone, investigation reveals that she goes on to say 'And no investment on the street goes on to pay larger dividends./For life is more than stocks and bonds and love than rate per cent,/And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.' While the brief quotation is fine, it does seem even more meaningful with the added lines.
One comment I do not agree with is that of Lord Chesterfield who said, 'Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.' I am not quite sure how they are 'best friends' if one is thinking of them in this way. It is surely better to be thinking as Evelyn Waugh was when he said, 'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to be amused by them.' Yes, a much better thought!
The photographs in the book are chosen to ideally match the comments and one that does that admirably is one that depicts a youngster asleep in bed with his pet dog alongside him with his head just poking out from the turned sheets. And the comment is 'Nothing can come between true friends.' Very true indeed and the photograph puts that message across.
And Proverbs 27:17 also has it right with ''A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are.' Now who said that I wonder?!
The American writer and artist Elbert Hubbard commented, 'Your friend is the man [or woman] who knows all about you and still likes you.' And that is how it should be because as Hubert Horatio Humphrey stated, 'The greatest gift of life is friendship.' It certainly is and we all need it now at this horrible time as it helps to keep us going.
I never tire of reading this type of book and this one with the great photographs that accompany the quotations, is even better to enjoy.
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