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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
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Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
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