Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Topic: Friendship, Money
- Location: Belize
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.
For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.
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So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
A friend is as it were a second self.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
People spend money when and where they feel good.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
