Best quotes
Sunday, 10 September 2017
Monday, 28 August 2017
Friendship
Best collection of quotes for your friends........
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Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
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Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting seldom.
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius (c.371-289)
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb
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Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.
Sun Tzu
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Keep your friendships in repair.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
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Little friends may prove great friends.
Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
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Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
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No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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One enemy is too many and a hundred friends too few.
unknown
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Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
unknown
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The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert (1593-1632)
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The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish Proverb
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The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.
Ben Franklin, thanks to Carl McFarland
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The wolf and the dog agree, at the expense of the goat which together they eat.
Basque (on friends and foes)
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When I eat your bread, I sing your song.
German (on friendship)
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You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
Eskimo (on friends and foes)
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
Sunday, 27 August 2017
Good Manners........
Topic of the day is good manners and ethics.........
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers—Jacques Cousteau
on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it’s going
faster and faster, but we don’t know where.
Because you’re able to do it and because you have the right to do it doesn’t—Laura Schlessinger
mean it’s right to do it.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.—Manly Hall
The concern for man and his destiny must always be the chief interest of all—Albert Einstein
technical effort. Never forget it among your diagrams and equations.
Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it—Martin Luther King, Jr
politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the
question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because
one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a—Theodore Roosevelt
menace to society.
Politics which revolves around benefit is savagery.—Said Nursi
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor—Ralph W. Emerson
the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never
would be found out.
—Thomas B. Macaulay
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