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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
"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
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
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
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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