Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words.

Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

Clarence Thomas

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

Cyril Connolly

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Cyril Connolly

Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.

Clifford Stoll

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Curtis Jackson

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

Confucius

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Confucius

There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

Confucius

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

Confucius

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Dane Cook

There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

Cyndi Lauper

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

Cyndi Lauper

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Dave Matthews

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

Dave Matthews

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

Dave Matthews

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

Dave Matthews

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

Dave Matthews

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

David Levithan

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Amber Riley

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

Amber Tamblyn

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Amber Tamblyn

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Amber Heard

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Anna Quindlen

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

Anna Quindlen

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

Andrew Greeley

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

Alphonse Karr

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.