Quotes of: David-bowie Keyword

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Dean Inge

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

Whoopi Goldberg

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Plautus

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson