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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.


Charles Montesquieu

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay great ones - with ingratitude
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don’t wait for big opportunities. You can create small but wonderful ones by starting with what yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ONLY THE SMALL SECRETS NEED TO BE PROTECTED. THE BIG ONES ARE KEPT SECRET BY PUBLIC INCREDULITY.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
ASHISH KUMAR It's going to be like two prize fighters. We're the small ones, they're the big ones.
HAYWOOD BOSTON What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an i...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I think they both have the same attitude, which is to say the fact that an exchange would own anothe...
GEORGES UGEUX That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end
FRANCIS QUARLES The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING When you have an email server like Microsoft Exchange, which is the most common for small businesses...
ANDREW LOCHART We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
SIR ANTHONY EDEN Focus on your big problems and pay attention to your small ones.
JIM GENOVESE By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dis...
JOS Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors....
TAMORA PIERCE There's a crucial difference in costs for procuring parts and materials between big operations and s...
TAKEO MIYAMOTO I believe experiencing true friendship is a gift of God! We learn love for him who is invisible, by ...
GARY SEIERSTAD God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned...
STEPHEN KING We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Somehow, the small things people do and say means more to me than big ones. Small things seem more s...
MJ CHRISTINE Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The Smalness of BIG people is.....when Big ones don't Do something BIG for smaller ones
ASHISH SOPHAT If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL A favor isn't a favor if something is expected in return; it's a loan, and sometimes a high interest...
GEORGE ZAHARIS We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
THUCYDIDES We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them
THUCYDIDES True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Ca...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON You want to be diversified with large-cap stocks, like the ones on the New York Stock Exchange, smal...
MARK MASELLI A small tree with strong roots will outlive a big tree with weak ones.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS We assume that the E-Stamp deal is not an exclusive arrangement.
PATRICK BRAND Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ...
NORMAN LEAR For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE Many of the projects we undertake don't have our name attached to them, but it is more important to ...
CHAD MILLER In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ...
HARVEY MACKAY In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.
ROLF MARGENAU We have a couple arrangements of piano pieces, a xylophone rag or two, an arrangement of an orchestr...
DAVID ORTIZ Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
ROBERT QUILLEN Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron
JOHN PAUL WARREN Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance
ROBERT QUILLEN Education is an avenue through which we learn new skills or sharpen existing ones
SUNDAY ADELAJA Having a surplus is allowing us to intervene in the exchange market and support an exchange rate we ...
CARLOS MOSSE Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.
G. C. LICHTENBERG Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast so...
JOHN MCEACHRAN That's the question. Is there corruption involved? Some improper exchange of favors or anything like...
DENNIS GOLDFORD But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a bene...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The power to overcome our small world,is by learning to think big.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survi...
JAMES LOVELOCK The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the inte...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS We will probably roll it out, exchange by exchange, testing three or four to begin with.
DARREN MOSER Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning ...
GOETHE Big companies can manage to survive, but some small and medium-sized ones are on the verge of bankru...
HUANG JUN In Past we talked BIG to have bright future.But we don't realize that BIG is very small for US in th...
SARTHAK SINGH Life is a big question,answerable only by small death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ...
NORMAN LEAR But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevole...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing personal about it, ... And it certainly was not a request for special favors, which we would...
GARY MOORE Occasionally, they get grants or small amounts of federal money. They have to depend on their state ...
DEBBIE RATCLIFFE So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between u...
ROBIN SLOAN Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United ...
MELANIA TRUMP On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,...
ALEX BERENSON not an arrangement.
DAVID HARRINGTON We will cooperate with big brand suppliers, which always have relationships with those small stores.
JAN BLASKO Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Departmen...
DONALD TRUMP Throwing is one issue, but covering bases and getting his running back is a big point of concern. It...
LARRY DAVIS They are new markets that we intend to work on. The climate is hot, which surely favors the sale of ...
JOSé ROBERTO PRADO Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.
E.R. HAZLIP There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a bene...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that yo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina...
PATRICK WANG The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea...
MILTON FRIEDMAN One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
SISTER MARY PAUL We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not sma...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER This bill is not an energy policy, ... It is a list of tax breaks and special interest favors that d...
EARL BLUMENAUER I was honored to have the opportunity to meet with President Museveni and continue our great friends...
CHRISTOPHER SMITH I did not want to lose sight of the fact that for every criminal I have to deal with, no matter how ...
MELISA MEL We get cheap goods in exchange for pieces of paper, which we can print at a great rate.
ALLAN MELTZER We get cheap goods in exchange for pieces of paper, which we can print at a great rate.
ALLAN H. MELTZER Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But whe...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by show...
J.K. ROWLING I still think there is big potential for consolidation across the Atlantic within the exchange space...
RICHARD REPETTO It's illegal to give insurance advice. We don't, but we have a good idea of which ones will pay and ...
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CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY