Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richie Havens

We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.

Robert Webb

Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there's a supermarket and a doctor's and a beach a five-minute walk away. That's all I want, and it's quite difficult to find.

A. A. Milne

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

A. A. Milne

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

A. A. Milne

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

A. A. Milne

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

A. E. Housman

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

A. A. Milne

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Aeschylus

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Aeschylus

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Adam Ant

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

Abraham Cowley

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

Abraham Cowley

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Abraham Cowley

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Your friend will argue with you.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

Alexander Smith

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

We worked together for six years and our wives are still good friends.

Cynthia Heimel

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

E. B. White

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

E. B. White

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

E. B. White

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Donald Trump

Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

Duke of Wellington

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Douglas William Jerrold

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Dorothy Dunnett

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?