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Famous Friendship Quotes

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“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.” – Albert Camus

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” – Aristotle

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

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

“True friends stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” – William Butler Yeats

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” – George Eliot

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

Aging Quotes #3

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# Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur

# Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis

# Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. – Gerald Brenan (“Life” Thoughts in a Dry Season: a Miscellany)

# The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything. – Oscar Wilde

# On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light. – Freya Stark

# One thing that can make us old fast is thinking that we are getting old. – Robert P. Lockwood (A Guy’s Guide to the Good Life) New! as of 08/21/10

# People don’t grow old. When they stop growing, they become old. – Anonymous

# People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five… It’s all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.- Rita Moreno

# The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes

# Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind. – Ethel Percy Andrus

# A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. – Abraham Heschel

# There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. – Sophia Loren

# Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. – Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

# To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Frederic Amiel

# To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. – Clara Ortega

Sweet Quotes About Love

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– “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

– “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

– “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

– “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

– “There are a million things in the world I want, but all I need is you.” – Anonymous

– “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse

– “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – Shakespeare

– “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

– “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

– “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

Break Up Quotes

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The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is. – Tigress Luv

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Unknown

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. – Victoria Holt

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

I never can love another
As long as life may stand.
No maid the wide world over
Shall hold this heart or hand. – Unknown

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. – Byron Nelson

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived. – Margaret Mitchell

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. – Rita Mero

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death. – Dennis Quaid

The heart was made to be broken. – Oscar Wilde

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it isn’t going to work. – Usher

It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye. – Unknown

If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours, if not it wasn’t meant to be. – Unknown

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either. – Golda Meir

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Anonymous

26 Moving Travel Quotes

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1. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

2.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Barr

3. “Only he that travels the road knows where the holes are deep” 
- Chinese Proverb

4. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” 
- John Hope Franklin

5. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
 – Robert Frost

6. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” 
- Maya Angelou

7. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” 
- Martin Burbur

8. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” 
- Daranna GIidel

9. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensation to read on the train.” 
- Oscar Wilde


10.”We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” 
- Unknown

11. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” 
- St. Augustine

12. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns to find it.” 
- George Moore

13.”I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.”
 – William Hazlitt

14. “The Traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he as come to see.” 
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

15. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
 – Nikos Kazantzakis

16. “The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

17. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” 
- Robert Louis Stevenson

18.”My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
 – Diane Arbus

19. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” 
- Benjamin Disraeli

20.”A true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.” 
- Colette

21. “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- Francis Bacon, Sr.

22. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends”
 – Shirley Maclaine

23.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Beard

24. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.”Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” 
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

26.”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
 – G.K. Chesterton

Famous People Quotes #5

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“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.” – Albert Giacometti (sculptor)

“There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet.” –Randy Pausch (1960-2008)

“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” – Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.” – Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” – Frank Zappa

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” – Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.” – G. B. Burgin

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” – Auric Goldfinger, in “Goldfinger” by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” – Goethe (1749-1832)

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.” – Richard Bach

“A witty saying proves nothing.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

“Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.” – James Stephens (1882-1950)

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.” – Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” – Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

“It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.” – Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” – Warren Zevon (1947-2003)

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Superbly Sarcastic Sayings About Life

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“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde

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

“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.” – Groucho Marx

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” – Abba Eban

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. ” – Albert Einstein

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ” – Albert Einstein

“In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep ” – Albert Einstein

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. ” – Albert Einstein

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ” – George Bernard Shaw

Funny Men Quotes

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– “My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.” – Tim Allen
– “The more I know about men the more I like dogs.” – Gloria Allred
– “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything in the house.” – Jean Kerr
– “Behind every successful man there is a surprised woman.” – Maryon Pearson
– “I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance — a sharp, vindictive glance.” – James Thurber
– “Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” – Oscar Wilde
– “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” – Oscar Wilde
– “The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.” – Jeanne-Marie Roland
– “On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.” – Bruce Willis
– “Why can’t women tell jokes? Because we marry them!” – Kathy Lette
– “Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.” – Kathy Lette
– “Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.” – Kathy Lette
– “Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.” – Will Rogers
– “Man has will, but woman has her way.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Top 10 Motivational Quotes for Today

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1. “I am who I choose to be” – Lois McMaster Bujold

2. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

3. “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves” – Zig Ziglar

4. “One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. «Which road do I take?», she asked. «Where do you want to go?», was his response. «I don’t know», Alice answered. «Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter»” – Lewis Carrol

5. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going” – Brian Tracy

6. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential” – Winston Churchill

7. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” – Henry Ford

8. “The future is always beginning now” – Mark Strand

9. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past” – Oscar Wilde

10. “If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon” – Doug Rader