Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanna Bonta

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Vanna Bonta

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Sophocles

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Sophocles

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Stephen King

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Stephanie Mills

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Stephen Ambrose

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised....

Sophie Swetchine

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Sophie Swetchine

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Sophia Bush

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Taylor Swift

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Soren Kierkegaard

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Marcus Aurelius

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Shel Silverstein

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

Shania Twain

You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.

Natalie Merchant

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Tanya Tucker

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

Tony Robbins

Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

Tony Abbott

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

Tony Abbott

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.