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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

 

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver

The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain

True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter

Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann

We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln

Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill

I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous


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