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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are a few of my favorite things.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words.
Those who simplify the universe
only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Anais Nin
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
In the long history of the world,
only a few generations have been granted the role
of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
- John F. Kennedy
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
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