A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

A friend to all is a friend to none

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

In the end, everything is a gag.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Truth is a tendency.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

We tend to get what we expect.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

What can't be cured must be endured.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

What is to give light must endure burning.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.