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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces, but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Quote by Richard Burton about friendship, life

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Quote by Richard Burton about recollection, events, memory, dream, man, life

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child, our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Quote by Richard Burton about childhood, children, love

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Quote by Richard Burton about order

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it

Quote by Richard Burton about contentment

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Quote by Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Quote by Richard Burton about teaching, books, work

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Quote by Richard Burton about wealth

Travelers are like poets, they are mostly an angry race.

Quote by Richard Burton about poets

You may be as vicious about me as you please, you will only do me justice.

Quote by Richard Burton about rightness, justice, contentment

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Quote by Richard Bach about writers

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Quote by Richard Bach about world, contentment

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Quote by Richard Bach about suffering, reality, idea, power, contentment, being

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Quote by Richard Bach about limits

Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Quote by Richard Bach about success, secret

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Quote by Richard Bach about problems, contentment

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Quote by Richard Bach about things, bad luck, bad, nothing

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment, love

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Quote by Richard Bach about civilization

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Quote by Richard Bach about meetings, good, good luck, contentment