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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
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
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
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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
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
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
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
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
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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