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Funny Quotes about Friends

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– “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” – Oscar Wilde

– “A true friend stabs you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

– “I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.” – Oscar Wilde

– “It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

– “Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.” – Anonymous

– “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.” – Doug Larson

– “Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.” – Anonymous

– “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

– “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Anonymous

– “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

– “Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.” – Anonymous

– “A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.” – Erma Bombeck

– “A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.” – Erma Bombeck

– “One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman

– “Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.” – Lord Chesterfield

– “A lifelong friend is someone you haven’t borrowed money from yet.” – Anonymous

– “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.” – Peter Ustinov

– “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius

– “One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.” – George Carlin

– “A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying “boy was that fun.”” – The Maugles

– “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler

– “Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.” – Horace Walpole

– “You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” – Harry S. Truman

– “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain

Inspirational & Motivational Quotes

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– “I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. And that I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.” – Edward Everett Hale

– “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” – E.B. White

– “I call all times soon.” – Aslan (from The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader)

– “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

– “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

– “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the battlefield of victory.” – Vince Lombardi

– “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

– “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis

– “I have no desire to be a teenager again. I think that would be beyond nature in a very, very dangerous way. And, in fact, this goes back to the parables of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan about eternal youth. It’s disastrous. It’s incredibly toxic. Within our culture in general, there’s a lot of people trying to prolong their youth, in disastrous ways. It just doesn’t work. The human body has finite limits.” – John Savage

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

– “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Chinese Proverb

– “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller

– “I make myself rich by making my wants few.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

– “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.” – Diane Sawyer

– “I will never look at a firefighter the same way again. What is it in someone, hundreds of them, to compel them to run into a burning building while everyone else is running out…just to save people they don’t even know? Their bravery has become part of our collective national legacy. Their bravery dignifies us all.” – Bill Hybels

– “I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not what happiness really is.” – Alanis Morissette

Life’s Wisdom Quotes

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“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown

“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler

“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” –George MacDonald

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King

Respect Quotes

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– “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe

– “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou

– “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou

– “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein

– “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill

– “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis

– “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

– “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

– “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

– “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon

Courage Quotes

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– “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
– “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
– “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou

– “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

– “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein

– “Above all, we must realize that 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan

– “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan

– “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

– “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

– “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

– “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

– “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

– “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

– “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare

– “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

– “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

Laugh Quotes

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– “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen

– “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston

– “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown

– “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

– “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live

– “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown

– “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

– “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier

– “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport

– “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

– “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb

– “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda

– “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut

– “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

– “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

– “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

– “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan

– “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones

– “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson

– “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman

– “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock

– “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut

– “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston

– “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4

– “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

– “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006

– “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey

Opinion Quotes

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– “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy

– “Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. ” – Abraham Lincoln

– “People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” – Buddha

– “To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.” – John Stuart Mill

– “My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.” – William Jones

– “We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.” – John Stuart Mill

– “The world is governed by opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes

– “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius

– “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William Ralph Inge

– “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” – Unknown

– “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F Kennedy

– “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” – Katherine Mansfield

General, Positive Friendship Quotes

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– “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton

– “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.” – Anais Nin

– “My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson

– “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein

– “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard

– “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubard

– “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – John Lennon

– “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” – Mary Catherwood

– “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

– “I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

– “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy…” – Guido

– “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” –Benjamin Disraeli

– “I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.” – Cher

– “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe