Wise Eustace Budgell Quotes

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

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