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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
There is an orderliness in the universe,
there is an unalterable law governing everything
and every being that exists or lives.
It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern
the conduct of living beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
- Edward Snowden
In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe
that had the lion's heart.
I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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 true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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 friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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.
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