Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Make a friend when you don't need one

Jeff Cohen

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

Brad Pitt

On friend Guy Ritchie: 'I think he's tits'.

Barbara Park

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Arthur Miller

Be liked and you will never want.

Art Buchwald

Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

Arthur Ashe

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Ayn Rand

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Benjamin Disraeli

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Benjamin Disraeli

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

Benjamin Disraeli

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Benjamin Disraeli

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Ben E. King

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

Ben E. King

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Cardinal Richelieu

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

C. S. Lewis

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Busta Rhymes

Why you got your ass on your shoulders?

Celine Dion

You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.

Donald Trump

I am thrilled to be able to offer my good friend Martha the opportunity to join me in the success of 'The Apprentice,' ... I hope she has as much fun as I do with this venture.

Carlos Lee is a friend of mine but he did come in awfully high on the knee. The picture I saw on the Web site looks like some kind of tae kwon do move he was putting on me.

Joan Collins

My husband and I started off as friends, which has been very important for our relationship,

Jack Rio

My good friend wouldn't want to do that.

Tim Brown

Maybe I can talk my good friend Jerry Rice into the same thing.

Jack Levin

Maybe he had a friend who was abused by an offender or a sibling or someone in his past who was very close. It doesn't have to be him. It could be an intimate in his life.