Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Marc Bolan

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Kinky Friedman

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kiana Tom

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

Kenny Rogers

Friendships come and go, but families are forever....

Margaret Thatcher

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Cavendish

one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...

Mark Twain

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

Mark Twain

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Mark Twain

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.

Paul Fleischman

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

Pam Brown

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Pam Brown

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

LeAnn Rimes

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

Laurence J. Peter

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Leigh Hunt

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.