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Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
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Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
O Day of days when we can read!
The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
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
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To state the facts frankly
is not to despair the future nor indict the past.
The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies
and gives a faithful accounting
to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
- John F. Kennedy
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
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
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
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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