A Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Choose Disagreeable Fellow Friend Good Rigid Steady Surly Wise

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William Makepeace Thackeray
English - Novelist
July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

W. S. Gilbert

In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.

Roddy Llewellyn

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Robert Burns

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

Gary A. Kowalski

To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.

Jean-Paul Sartre

My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

Owen Feltham

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.

Gus Van Sant

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Josh Billings

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Howard Jacobson

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

L. Frank Baum

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

George S. Clason

Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.