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In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
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Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Friendship is but another name for an alliance
with the follies and the misfortunes of others.
Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- 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
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
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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.
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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