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May these quotes about Olives inspire and motivate you.
They can do without architecture
who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
- Henry David Thoreau
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
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
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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