
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a respect for manners as such,
they are a way of dealing with people
you don't agree with or like.
- Margaret Mead
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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 doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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