Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Sylvia Plath

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Sylvia Plath

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Rosalind Wiseman

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Stephen King

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Stephanie Mills

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Stephen Ambrose

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised....

Sophie Swetchine

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Sophie Swetchine

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Sophia Bush

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Taylor Swift

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Soren Kierkegaard

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Sophie Kinsella

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Thomas Gray

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Thomas Gray

A fav'rite has no friend!

Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

William Wordsworth

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

William Wordsworth

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

William Wordsworth

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

William Shenstone

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

William Morris

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.