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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Folly.
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
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Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is but another name for an alliance
with the follies and the misfortunes of others.
Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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