Quotes About Community

Every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean any falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good," he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.