Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Quintilian

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Prince William

When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

Terry Goodkind

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

Tennessee Williams

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Ted Demme

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

Randolph Bourne

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Neale Donald Walsch

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Rebecca Wells

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Richard Burton

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Tullian Tchividjian

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

Michel de Montaigne

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Michel de Montaigne

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel de Montaigne

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Michel de Montaigne

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

Philip Sidney

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

Lisa Loeb

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

John Vanbrugh

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

John Travolta

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

John Taylor

I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.

Neale Donald Walsch

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Nancy Reagan

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Milan Kundera

To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.

Mick Taylor

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Margaret Whiting

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Joseph Addison

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Joseph Addison

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Joseph Addison

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Joseph Addison

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.