Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Simone Weil

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Rick Riordan

Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

Rick Riordan

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

Reese Witherspoon

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

Stephen Fry

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

Stephen Fry

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers

Stephen Fry

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

St. Jerome

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Sri Chinmoy

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

Sri Chinmoy

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

Ruby Wax

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Ruby Wax

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Roger Rosenblatt

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

Rush Limbaugh

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

Ray Davies

You got all your friends, I got a TV set.

Ray Davies

You're dumb, but don't give in.

Rashida Jones

I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

Rajneesh

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

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.

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.

Robert M. Pirsig

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.