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For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
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Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the word go forth from this time and place,
to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans -
born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy
Before printing was discovered,
a century was equal to a thousand years.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
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 like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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.
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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