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May you find great value in these Egotism quotes and sayings.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Related topics: Wisdom Ego Psychology
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
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
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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