Friendly Quotes

• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

  "Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Home, House

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Successful, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

  Antonia Fraser

  Photography, Book, Looks

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• You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Thinking, Fabulous, Welsh

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Being Alone

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• I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

  Anne Grant

  Texas, Information, County

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• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

  Roberta Williams

  Years, People, Needs

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• The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

  George Catlin

  Hippie, Crow, Handsome

  George Catlin (2015). “The North American Indians Volume 1 of 2: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners and Conditions”, p.53, Digital Scanning Inc

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• I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

  Mike Figgis

  Trying, Cameras, Want

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• Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

  Stan Mikita

  Hurt, Hockey, Sticks

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• It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

  Gloria Stuart

  Rain, Struggle, Alaska

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• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Writing, Sometimes, Concrete

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• I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

  Lauren Graham

  Made, Shows, Seasons

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• In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

  Virgil Goode

  Oil, Years, House

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• I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

  Erich Leinsdorf

  Lyndon B Johnson, Young, Congressman

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• God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

  W. H. Auden

  God, Usa, America

  W. H. Auden, “On The Circuit”

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• We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Retirement, Talking

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• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Hands, Important

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• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Pope John XXIII

  Generosity, Catholic, Church

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• A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

  Jean Kerr

  Jobs, Divorce, Tables

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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