Friend Quotes

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

Be courteous to all,

but intimate with few,

and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

When you fish for love,

bait with your heart,

not your brain.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions

which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Intellectual growth should commence

at birth and cease only at death.

There is a charm about the forbidden

that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Give me liberty,

or give me death!

— Patrick Henry

Older people sit down and ask,

What is it?

but the boy asks,

What can I do with it?

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Absence and death are the same

only that in death there is no suffering.

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.

If we forget what we did,

we won’t know who we are.

Watch your thoughts,

for they will become actions.

Watch your actions,

for they’ll become… character.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Every day is Day 1.

I remember a specific moment,

watching my grandmother,

hang the clothes on the line,

and her saying to me,

you are going to have to learn to do this,

and me being in that space of awareness and knowing,

that my life would not be the same,

as my grandmother's life.

You can’t be witty without observing the absurdities around you.

The strength of a nation lies in the character of its people.