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| Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. | | Anais Nin | |
| Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death | | Mark Twain | |
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For it is not simply because of mere sluggishness alone that human relationships repeat themselves from case to case in such unspeakable monotonous and unrefreshed ways; there is also a certain shyness for unforseeable experiences generally because one doesn't feel up for them.
But only for the one that is on the lookout for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatic, will the relationship to another become something alive and to speak to the whole potential of one's existence. | | Rainer Maria Rilke | |
| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species | | Seneca | |
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| I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one | | Clarence Darrow | |
| I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below | | Harry S Truman | |
| I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. | | Walt Disney | |
| I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. | | Stephen Wright | |
| I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. | | Harry S Truman | |
| I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? | | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
