Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney J. Harris

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Sylvester Stallone

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Suzanne Massie

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

Rick Riordan

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Rick James

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

Torquato Tasso

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

Tony Visconti

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Robert Graves

Well, we've been lucky devils both And there is no need for a pledge or oath To bind our lovely friendship fast, By firmer stuff Close bound enough.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

Stuart Wilde

Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.

Sting

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Stevie Smith

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

Solon

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Solon

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Stephen Schwartz

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

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.

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.