Famous Quotes & Sayings

In Mozambique there has been a problem with payment - and there are problems there like malaria and high tax rates. It's not friendly for us.

Margaret Smith

I'm nervous, but very excited, ... always remember my friends and all the great times we have together and just how much fun this all is.

I'm not a friend. But when they graduate, we become friends ? sometimes great friends.

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

Plutarch

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Plutarch

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

Plutarch

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Plutarch

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Plutarch

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Picabo Street

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

Phillips Brooks

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Judith Martin

There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

Judith Martin

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.

Jackson Pollock

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

Stuart Wilde

Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.

Sting

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Stevie Smith

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

Solon

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Solon

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Stephen Schwartz

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

Stephen Fry

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Peter Stone

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.