Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

George Washington

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Santayana

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Frank Zappa

Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.

Frank Zappa

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

Jeanette Winterson

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

Jeanette Winterson

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Jessy Schram

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

Jethro Tull

She's a warm fart at Christmas.

Jethro Tull

A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

Jethro Tull

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

Isabel Lucas

My best friend was Aboriginal.

He thought these guys were going to do his friend serious physical harm.

Donald Rumsfeld

Georgia ... is a staunch friend of the West.

Geographically, they're often separated from their friends, they don't hang out with kids in the neighborhood. Parents don't know their friends' parents. And even those who say, 'You can't go over there because I don't know the family,' but then have no problem letting their kids talk online to those same kids.

Good memories are seeing a lot of good friends,

Good to the poor, to kindred dear, / To servants kind, to friendship clear, / To nothing but herself severe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

George Bernard Shaw

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.