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.

Edmund Burke

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Elie Wiesel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Billy Joel

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

Billy Joel

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Billy Joel

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.

Billy Joel

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

Beverley Mitchell

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

Beverly Cleary

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

Bernard Williams

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

Edward Gibbon

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edith Wharton

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

David Rockefeller

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

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.

Edwin Louis Cole

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Edward Lear

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

Edgar Guest

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.