Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . . You're no Thomas Jefferson!

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Charles Lewis

We realize what a personal friend she could become and did become to so many of us, and what a friend she was to Bonita Springs and Southwest Florida.

Cameron Diaz

Well, I saw 10 minutes of 'Love Actually' the other day and I was like, 'Oh my God, he's in love with his friend's wife.' He never talks to her but talks to his friend all the time so that he can stare at his wife,

Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, and has been a leader on many important issues related to the pork industry.

Playing three sports he made a lot of friends. He's a popular kid on campus.

I tell all my friends it's a lot of fun, ... I want to skate for a long time.

Dolly Wells

We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

Jo Coudert

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

James Taylor

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

James Stewart

The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.

James McBride

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

James Lecesne

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.

John Evelyn

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Donne

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

John Donne

Friends are ourselves.

John O'Donohue

The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul.

John O'Donohue

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.

John O'Donohue

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

Joan Osborne

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

Joan Lunden

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Joan Rivers

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

Garry Shandling

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

Francois Fenelon

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

A mile walk with a friend has only one hundred steps

Edward Bennett Williams

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Eckhart Tolle

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

Holbrook Jackson

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Henry Van Dyke

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.