Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Matthews

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

Dave Matthews

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

Dave Matthews

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

David Levithan

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Dodie Smith

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

Dodie Smith

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

Diogenes

All things are in common among friends.

Diogenes

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Desmond Morris

A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

Amber Riley

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

Amber Tamblyn

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Amber Tamblyn

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Amber Heard

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Anna Quindlen

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

Anna Quindlen

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

Andrew Greeley

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

Alphonse Karr

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Alphonse Karr

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Ann Richards

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Anatole France

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

Anais Nin

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

Chuck Palahniuk

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs

Christopher Morley

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

Anne Beatts

A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Anne Stevenson

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Anne Stevenson

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.