Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Please enjoy these Quotes about Custom and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Tradition Choice Think Limitation Community
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Thank you for visiting: Quotes about Custom and Friendship - Custom Quotes.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.>
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.