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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. -- Mencius
Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked. -- Drayton Bird
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. -- Frederick William Robertson
Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't. -- Don Roff
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God'). -- Anthony Sampson
My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane. -- Marcel Proust
A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross. -- Hippolyte Taine
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. -- Stephen Leacock
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? -- Aeschylus
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. -- Karen Armstrong
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. -- Emily Dickinson
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. -- John Adams
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. -- Moliere
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. -- Catherine the Great
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 lead. -- Charles M. Schwab
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. -- Jane Austen
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man. -- Louis Sullivan
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. -- Leonard Cohen
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. -- Giacomo Casanova
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. -- Nellie Bly
The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly. -- Oliver North
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa. -- Akon
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. -- Rene Descartes
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. -- Clarence Darrow
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. -- Lionel Blue
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. -- Gertrude Jekyll
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. -- Chief Seattle
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me. -- Andrea Hirata
Time is a kindly God. -- Sophocles
Speak kindly to and of yourself. -- Bryant McGill
Gently to hear, kindly to judge. -- William Shakespeare
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. -- Mark Twain
true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed. -- Julia McNair Wright
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. -- Mason Cooley
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous. -- P. G. Wodehouse
To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses. -- Mason Cooley
The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept. -- Sun Tzu
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. -- William Shakespeare
Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid! -- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. -- John Henry Newman
A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly. -- Homer
Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. -- Paul Gray
A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate. -- Rick Warren
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. -- John Sharp Williams
To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily. -- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. -- Lydia M. Child
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. -- Max Ehrmann
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. -- Laurence Sterne
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God. -- Ronald Reagan
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly. -- A. A. Milne
People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor. -- Nicola Sturgeon
farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear. -- Murasaki Shikibu
If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut! -- Roland Freisler
Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible. -- Cassandra Clare
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. -- Alexander Pope
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. -- Alan Greenspan
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Always speak and think kindly about yourself, because your soul needs your love and approval. -- Doreen Virtue
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. -- Danielle Steel
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. -- Alexander Pope
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. -- Samuel Johnson
Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep. -- Dave Matthews
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. -- Vaclav Havel
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults. -- Socrates
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere. -- Orison Swett Marden
Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you -- Leyla Zana
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. -- B. C. Forbes
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. -- Stephen Leacock
If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. -- John Armstrong
Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring. -- William Vaughn Moody
The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works. -- William Gouge
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness -- Confucius
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool -- Bellamy Brooks
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. -- Larry McMurtry
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king. -- Sophocles
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. -- Marquis de Sade
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace. -- Henry David Thoreau
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. -- David Gemmell
You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity. -- Byron Katie
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . -- John Adams
...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. -- Khalil Gibran
If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly. -- Robin Hobb
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. -- Agnes Repplier
The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart. -- James Joyce
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist. -- Elbert Hubbard
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell. -- Elbert Hubbard
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. -- Christopher Hitchens
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. -- Frank Herbert
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people -- Norman Vincent Peale
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. -- Pittacus Lore
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. -- Ogden Nash
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people. -- Franz Grillparzer
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. -- Mark Twain
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. -- George Santayana
Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised. -- Gautama Buddha
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! -- Emily Dickinson
Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that. -- Matt Czuchry
Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor. -- J. K. Rowling
Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. -- Marcus Aurelius
I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses. -- Anna Wintour
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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