Quotes
Quotes about End
""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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.
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
