Friendly Quotes

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. View quote
Bertrand Russell
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. View quote
Martin Luther
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. View quote
Cicero
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. (Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly? View quote
Jeremy Irons
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. View quote
Walker Percy
Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? View quote
Bertrand Russell
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is. View quote
Dick Cheney
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling. View quote
Paul Arden
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that. View quote
Layne Staley
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time. (Robert Kirkman)
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair. View quote
Gloria Stuart
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice. View quote
Hanoi Hannah
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. View quote
Li Peng
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years. View quote
Rob Walton
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