Neither a borrower or lender be, for loan oft(en) loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare - English writer (1564-1616), in "Hamlet", 1st act, Scene 3 "Polonius"(1603), Zitateheft 2012
Ὧν ἡ σοφία παρασκευάζεται εἰς τὴν τοῦ ὅλου βίου μακαριότητα, πολὺ μέγιστόν ἐστιν ἡ τῆς φιλίας κτῆσις. Epicurus from Samos - Greek philosopher (341-270 B. C.); from "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" (Book ten, Epicurus) by Diogenes Laërtius (Greek historian and doxographer, 3rd century...
You only love your friend truly, when you love God in your friend, either because he is in him, or in order that he may be in him. Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctors of Church (354-430), Sermon 336,2
Our record of persuading decent, intelligent people to stop doing dumb things is very poor. (Munger added, "Worse than poor.") When people want to do something, they do it. When someone rises to be CEO, he doesn"t want to hear a shareholder telling him that his latest idea is dumb. It"s better to be in a business with management you"re simpatico with than in a great business in which this...
Integrity has no need for rules. Albert Camus - Frech philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (1913-1960), from "The Myth of Sisyphos" ("Le mythe de Sisyphe", 1942), Zitateheft 2009
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - English writer (1647-1680)
God does not give you a wife to frustrate you but to complement you. Howard G. Hendricks - American Professor at the Dallas Theological Seminary (1924-2013), Quotations book 2008
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.. C. S. Lewis - British writer (1898-1963)
Always look for a neighbour before you look for a house. Wisdom - Quotations book 2007
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracián y Morales - Spanish philosopher and writer (1601-1658), Quotations book 2006
You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing.. Plato - Greek philosopher (ca. 428-348 BC), Quotations book 2002
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much I had in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child. Dr. Forest E. Witcraft - American Scholar and boy scout(1894-1967), from "Within My Power" (1950), Quotations...