Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

Boris Yeltsin

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Barry Humphries

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Barbara Bush

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Arthur Schopenhauer

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Edward Young

And friend received with thumps upon the back.

Jose Reyes

We're just good friends. We joke around here in the clubhouse, but if we see each other outside, we're friends. We joke, try to have fun.

We're friends first, and I think that's what makes it work.

We're friendly enemies, I guess you could say.

William Shakespeare

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

William Shakespeare

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

William Shakespeare

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

Through our (upper-classman) experiences, we also as players have wisdom to share with the younger guys. Without overstepping our bounds, we try to provide guidance in a friendly way. You know, they can take it from somebody they can relate to.

David Hume

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

David Hume

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

David Hume

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

August Strindberg

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Arnold Bennett

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Deborah Eisenberg

time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

Diego Boneta

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

Dian Fossey

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Deepak Chopra

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Edward Everett Hale

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.