Linden Mueller's List: Quote Collection

• "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Copy to Clipboard
  
            --  Donald Robert Perry Marquis

• • A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter;
     he who finds one finds a treasure.
     A faithful friend is beyond price,
     no sum can balance his worth. 
     
    • Sirach 6:14-15 (The New American Bible)
• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. 
   
  • Donna Roberts
• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? 
   
  • Abraham Lincoln
• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. 
   
  • Dave Tyson Gentry
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. 
   
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. 
   
  • James Boswell
• • I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. 
     
    • Robert Brault
• A true friend is one soul divided into two people. 
   
  • Aristotle
• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. 
   
  • William Arthur Ward
• Friendship is like pee in your pants. Everyone can see it's there, but only you can feel the true warmth. 
   
  • Unknown

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• There are three main causes of war in this world; religions, politics and fonts.

• “Be as you wish to seem.” ~Socrates
• “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel” ~Socrates
• “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have” ~Socrates
• “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms” ~Socrates
• “Wisdom begins in wonder.” ~Socrates

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• "The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil,  and he must employ all his art  in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."  Alfred Adler
• "When we treat man as he is, we make him worse that he is;  when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be,  we make him what he should be."  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "We are all such a waste of our potential,  like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs."  Mignon McLaughlin
• "The greater danger for most of us lies  not in setting our aim too high and falling short,  but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."  Michelangelo
• "There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,  and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."  Carl Sandburg
• "Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

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