#friend

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#friendship #like #pearl #poetry #precious

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#beg #deal #effort #friends #get

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#citizenship #comes #cry #curse #drunkenness

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#backdoor #bar #bring #dj #equipment

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ↗

— William Jay

#friend #half #having #how #pleasure

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#friendship #i #i wish #mankind #may

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #enter #follies #friendship #into

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#foes #friend #injured

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#discovered #fresh #friends #i #indeed