Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Ethel Barrymore

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Ethan Suplee

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

Ernst Mayr

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.

Henry David Thoreau

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Henry David Thoreau

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

Henry David Thoreau

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Henry David Thoreau

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

Henry David Thoreau

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Henry David Thoreau

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

Henry David Thoreau

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

Henry David Thoreau

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

Henry David Thoreau

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .

Henry David Thoreau

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

Henry David Thoreau

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Henry David Thoreau

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Henry David Thoreau

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Chrisette Michele

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Chrissie Hynde

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

Chris Ware

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.