Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

William Blake

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

William Blake

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.

William Blake

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Samuel Richardson

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Samuel Richardson

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

Samuel Butler

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Hoffenstein

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Samuel Beckett

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

Whitney Houston

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Whitney Houston

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

W. H. Auden

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

William Cowper

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?

William Cowper

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

William Cowper

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

William Cowper

She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.

Wayne Dyer

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

Tove Jansson

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

Van Morrison

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

William Glasser

Everybody needs one essential friend.

William Glasser

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

William Barclay

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

William Arthur Ward

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

William Arthur Ward

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

William Arthur Ward

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.

Warren Zevon

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.