Monday, July 6, 2009

Famous Quotes from Famous People

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() Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.

Anonymous


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() This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love

Anonymous


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

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer



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( Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love.

Anonymous



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() A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Russian Proverb




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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Eugene Benge


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() Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven


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) Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist




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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

Yassir Arafat


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A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

Amanda Grier



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You May Be One Person To The World But You May Be The World To One Person.

Anonymous .

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Chinese Proverb


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With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Chinese Proverb




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I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins




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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher




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The road to a friend's house is never long

Danish Proverb


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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Scottish Proverb

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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Proverb


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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold


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Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joseph Joubert




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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Russian Proverb




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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Arabian Proverb


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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet




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I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

Russian Proverb



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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

William Adams




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The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe




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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian




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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist




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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist




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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis



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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

F. Scott K. Fitzgerald


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The road to a friend's house is never long.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin


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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

Robert Anson Heinlein


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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon


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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer




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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Paul Aubuchon

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