Famous Quotes & Sayings

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

LeAnn Rimes

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

Laurence J. Peter

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Leigh Hunt

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Joe Cocker

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Jodi Picoult

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

John Green

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Patti Smith

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

P. G. Wodehouse

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Ovid

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

Ovid

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Ovid

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

Ovid

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

Martha Beck

By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

Martha Beck

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

Martha Beck

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

Marion Cotillard

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

Maria Callas

Only my dogs will not betray me.

Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Publilius Syrus

Friendship is stronger than kindred.

Publilius Syrus

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Publilius Syrus

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Publilius Syrus

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.

Publilius Syrus

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nhat Hanh

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Nhat Hanh

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

Joey Lauren Adams

Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.