Quotes
Quotes about Men
When I'm having trouble loving someone I mentally regress him to baby state. -Jan Gopal-.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.
Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Your decision will cause him to be one way or another in a box.. either a cement one or a pine one (a jail or a coffin). Jonathan Shapiro, Muhammad's attorney to jury Some websites say that Muhammad was at Ft Lewis, a Muslim like other Muslims recruited by the US military for a black ops camp in Alabama.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancyâthat it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
