Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Smith

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Elbert Hubbard

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Edward Abbey

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Aristotle

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Aristotle

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them...

Aristotle

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Aristotle

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle

A friend is another I.

Ben Kingsley

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

Elinor Glyn

do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

Dirk Kempthorne

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

David Bowie

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

Bill Bradley

Lowell has been a friend for many years. He is someone I respect. I think he is someone who is respected in American life as a stand-up guy,