Centuries Quotes

The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer

Related topics: Government Political

Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before printing was discovered,
a century was equal to a thousand years.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley

Let the word go forth from this time and place,
to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans -
born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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