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Friendship

Treasure is not always a friend, but a friend is always a treasure.
—Francis Bacon (1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Friendship is love without his wings.
—George Gordon Byron (1788-1824 British poet)
Friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
No road is long with good company.
—English proverb
A true friend is forever a friend.
—George MacDonald(1824-1905 British author and poet)
Old friends and old wine are best.
—John Ray (1627-1705 British naturalist)
There are three faithful friends — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
—John Ray (1627-1705 British naturalist)
He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.
—Aesop (620-560 B.C. Greeks fabulist)
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862 American author)
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C. Roman writer)
Like knows like.
—Draxe
Tell me thy company, I will tell thee what thou art.
—Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist)
A friend’s eye is a good looking glass.
—Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C. Roman statesman and orator)

Family, Parents and Children

Home is where the heart is.
—Pliny the Elder(Gaius Plinius Secundus 23-79 Roman scholar)
He is the happiest, be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832 German poet and dramatist)
The family you came from isn’t as important as the family you are going to have.
—D. H. Laurence(1885-1930 British writer)
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
—John Howard Payne(1791-1852 American playwright)
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
—Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887 American clergyman)
Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
—Sir Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941 Indian poet)
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
There is a skeleton in every house.
—William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863 British novelist)
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
—Elbert Hubbard(1856-1915 American publisher and author)
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
—James Baldwin(1924-1987 American novelist)
Children need models rather than critics.
—Joseph Joubert(1754-1824 French essayist)
Like father, like son.
—Latin proverb
The father’s virtue is the child’s best inheritance.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)

Work and Leisure

If one desires to succeed in everything, he must pay the price.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson(1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane(1864-1910 American journalist)
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
—Elbert Hubbard(1856-1915 American philosopher and writer)
Work as though your strength were limitless.
—Sarah Bernhardt(1844-1923 French actress)
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope(1694-1773 British statesman and writer)
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
—Samuel Burler(1835-1902 British author)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
—William Howells(1837-1920 American novelist and literary critic)
Leisure is the time for doing something useful
—Elias Howe(1819-1867 American inventor)
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
—John Dryden(1631-1700 British Poet Laureate and playwright)
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
—Thomas Hobbes(1588-1679 British philosopher)
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
—William Shakespeare(1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
—Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881 British essayist and historian)
Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
—German proverb
The fortunate people in the world — the only really fortunate people in the world, in my mind, — are those whose work is also their pleasure.
—Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1874-1965 British Prime Minister)
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
—Samuel Butler(1835-1902 British author)

Education

Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
—Plato(427-347 B.C. Greek philosopher)
As what sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
—Joseph Addison(1672-1719 British poet and essayist)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
—Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
Education has for its object the formation of character.
—Herbert Spencer(1820-1903 British philosopher)
The object of educator is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
—Robert Hutchins(1899-1977 American educational philosopher)
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can’t make him think.
—Finley Peter Dunne(1867-1936 American humorist and writer)
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats(1865-1939 Irish poet)
Men learn while they teach.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca(ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Roman philosopher and statesman)
And gladly would learn, and gladly teach.
—Geoffrey Chaucer(ca. 1340-1400 British poet)
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
—Edward Gibbon(1737-1794 British historian)
One father is more than a hundred school masters.
—George Herbert(1593-1633 British priest and poet)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry Adams(1838-1918 American historian and novelist)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to slave.
—Henry Peter Brougham(1778-1868 British statesman)
Only the educated are free.
—Epictetus (55-135 Greek Stoic philosopher)
Only a nation of educated people could remain free.
—Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826 the 3rd President of the United States)

Books and Reading

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
—Glenn Curtiss(1878-1930 American aviation pioneer and inventor)
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
—John Milton(1608-1674 British poet)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
—René Descartes(1596-1650 French philosopher and mathematician)
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.
—Francois Rabelais(ca. 1494-1553 French Renaissance humanist and writer)
Turn off the TV and read great books. They open doors in your brain.
—Richard Wolkomir(American writer)
Reading makes a full man.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading.
—Thomas Macaulay(1800-1859 British poet, historian and politician)
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
—Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862 American author)
Great books are always contemporary. In contrast, the books we call “contemporary”, because they are currently popular, last only for a year or two, or ten at the most.
—Mortimer Jerome Adler(1902-2001 American educator)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
I wonder whether what we are publishing now is worth cutting down trees to make paper for the stuff.
—Richard Brautigan(1935-1984 American novelist and poet)
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
—English proverb
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read.
—Carlo Goldoni(1707-1793 Italian playwright)
Books are for use, not for show.
—William Lyon Phelps(1865-1934 American educator)
Laws die, books never.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton(1831-1891 British politician and poet)

Learning

It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever his age.
—Socrates(ca. 470-399 B.C. Greek philosopher)
All men naturally desire to know.
—Aristotle(384-322 B.C. Greek philosopher)
Never too old to learn.
—Thomas Middleton(ca. 1570-1627 British playwright)
By the street of “By and By” one arrives at the house of “Never”.
—English proverb
You can learn from everyone.
—Derek Bok(1930- former president of Harvard University)
Live to learn, not learn to live.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
The years teach much which the days never know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson(1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822 British poet)
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
—Edmund Burke(1729-1797 British statesman and orator)
He who nothing questions, nothing learns.
—Sthephen Gosson(1554-1624 British writer)
He that sips of many arts, drinks none.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater(1741-1801 Swiss poet)
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
Intellect without morality is, so to speak, a tiger with a sword.
—Orison Marden(1848-1924 American spiritual author)
Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)