Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Taylor

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....

Jeremy Taylor

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

Jena Malone

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Jemaine Clement

I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

Jemima Kirke

I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

Georges Bernanos

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

George Sand

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

George Sand

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Jean Paul

It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."

Jean Paul

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Jean Paul

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Jim Henson

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

John Newton

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

John Muir

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

John Webster

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Walters

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

John Steinbeck

It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

John Steinbeck

Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

John Steinbeck

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

John Steinbeck

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

John Steinbeck

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Martin Luther

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Nicholas Pileggi

Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

Sean Covey

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Sean Covey

It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Scott Hamilton

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

Todd Rundgren

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Sitting Bull

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Mark Crispin Miller

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.