The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much. always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends. never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can. to hearken
in Benjamin Franklin QuotesIf two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend. on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
in Saint Augustine QuotesWe take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
in Ralph Waldo Emerson QuotesNow you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.
in Charles Ruff QuotesA man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
in Samuel Butler QuotesStrangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
in Ani Difranco QuotesThe essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
in Bill Cosby QuotesThe results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesA good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
in Friedrich Nietzsche QuotesBy going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
in Roger Ebert QuotesKeep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
in Henry Ward Beecher QuotesAmbition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
in Ambrose Bierce Quotes
