There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
› Robert Louis Stevenson
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
› Charles Darwin
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
› Shirley MacLaine
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
› Friedrich Nietzsche
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
› Plato
Friends accept you the way you are.
› Marilyn Monroe
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.
› Abraham Lincoln
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
› Mark Twain
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
› Bette Davis
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
› Winston Churchill
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
› Aristotle
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
› Samuel Butler
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
› Ayn Rand
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
› P.T. Barnum
