Friendly Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Dog, Small Rooms, America

  1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

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• We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

  Sid Vicious

  Nice, Sides, Beastly

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• At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

  Jim Bishop

  Birthday, Looks, Tomorrow

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• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  Emanuel Celler

  Travel, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

  Teresa of Avila

  Believe, Men, Would Be

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Thinking, Likes And Dislikes

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Advice, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1874). “The Shakespeare Argosy: Containing Much of the Wealth of Shakespeare's Wisdom and Wit”, p.38

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• If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

  Lewis Carroll

  Dozen, Letters, Shade

  Lewis Carroll (1908). “Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Answers, Firsts

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.414

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• The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Giving, Absent Friends

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• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  Socrates

  Clever, Ridiculous, Hostile

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• The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Differences, Earth, Layers

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Fleeting

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• It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.

  KT Tunstall

  Alternatives, Fuel, Environmentally Friendly

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• My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

  Gregory Maguire

  Jobs, New York, Ice Cream

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• English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Australia, People, Way

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• What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

  Lindsey Graham

  Change, Party, President

  "Lindsey Graham: Caitlyn Jenner Is 'Welcome in My Party'". www.theatlantic.com. June 7, 2015.

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• Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your head to keep you alert to the needs of your baby.

  Jean Marzollo

  Baby, Children, Responsibility

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• We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Environmental, Needs

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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  Kaki King

  Country, People, Normal

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