The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense of daily or long-term struggle had seemed airbrushed. A...
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes lette...
So rest and relax and grow stronger, Let go and let God share your load, Your work is not finished or ended, You’ve just come to “a bend in the road”. “When you ask God for a gift, be thankful if He sends, not diamonds, pearls or riches, but ...
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
Your friend will swallow your mistakes, your enemy will present them on a plate.
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Your friend chooses pebbles for you and your enemy counts your faults.
The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.
If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.
If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house.
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds soon choke up an unused path.
Tell your friend a lie -- and if he keeps it a secret, tell him the truth.
If you marry a young woman, make sure your friends stay outside.
Ignore the real world “That would never work in the real world.” You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea. This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It’s a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approac...
Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that...
BE REAL Bring it on- And let truth be my existence. Value my life- And tell me like it is. Bark at me when I'm wrong- And hug me when I'm right. Praise me if I succeed- And tell me if I fail. Laugh at me if you think I'm funny- And wink at me if you ...
The real unlucky one will sprain his thumb when he blows his nose.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
