Famous Quotes & Sayings

Golda Meir

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Giuliana Rancic

I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

Harriet Lerner

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Homer

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Horace Bushnell

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

Ian Somerhalder

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Hugo Black

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Hugh Prather

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Jerry Hall

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

Gloria Steinem

I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger

Horace Walpole

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Horace

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Horace

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

Homer

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

Homer

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Homer

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Jimmy Johnson

As a teammate and a friend (I want) to be there for him as well for the other people who lost loved ones on the flight.

as a way for me to sort of gather up my late friends and have them together.

That's a good idea! Now, what do you think I should get for my turtle friend here, Denver?

Garth Brooks

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

Gail Godwin

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Gail Porter

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

Gail Sheehy

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

George Edward Woodberry

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Fay Weldon

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Faith Hill

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Ezra Taft Benson

Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Euripides

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Francis Quarles

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

William Hazlitt

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world