Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Samuel Pepys

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

William Feather

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

William Ellery Channing

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Ronald Reagan

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Saint Augustine

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Saint Francis de Sales

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Saint Francis de Sales

Friendship requires great communication.

Tori Amos

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Vera Brittain

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Venus Williams

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Vera Farmiga

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

Robin Williams

Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true.

Robert Vaughn

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

Robert E. Lee

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Richard Widmark

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

Richard Whately

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Richelle Mead

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Richard Barnfield

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

Russell Lynes

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

Russell Crowe

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

Thomas S. Monson

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

Thomas S. Monson

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

Robert Hewison

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

Robert Griffin III

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

Robert Ballard

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Robert Baden-Powell

I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

Robert Baden-Powell

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Richard M. Nixon

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

Rebecca Pidgeon

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

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.