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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.
Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.
Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made
that didn't work out as you hoped.
Forgive yourself for any financial decisions
that didn't meet your expectations.
Release your regrets if you choose
the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.
Today, choose love.
Choose to love yourself.
Choose to love your life.
Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,
acquaintances, and others who share your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
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The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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