Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

E. W. Howe

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

E. W. Howe

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

E. W. Howe

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

E. W. Howe

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

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.

Alphonse Karr

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Ann Richards

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Anatole France

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

Anais Nin

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

Chuck Palahniuk

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs

Garth Brooks

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

Christopher Morley

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

Anne Beatts

A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

Alexander Pope

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Alexander Pope

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Alexander Pope

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Alexander Pope

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Alexander Pope

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Alexander Pope

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

Alexander Pope

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

These were good friends -- knew each other since they were 9. Never fought. It should be a lesson to other youths.

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Personally I feel it is really disappointing for a great friend and colleague. But professionally the job is still to be done and in the short term I am focussed on the next challenge, and that is Ireland at Lansdowne Road.

People think this is a horrible problem, and they are not being very friendly to illegal immigrants.