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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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)
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
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