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

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

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.

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.

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.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

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

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.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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.

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