Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Buble

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Merle Shain

The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

Merle Haggard

We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

Merle Haggard

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

Mason Cooley

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

Mason Cooley

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

Mason Cooley

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

Mason Cooley

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Mason Cooley

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Mason Cooley

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Mason Cooley

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

Mason Cooley

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

Mason Cooley

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

Mary Astell

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Menander

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Mencius

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

P. G. Wodehouse

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Ovid

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

Ovid

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Ovid

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

Ovid

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

Martha Beck

By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

Martha Beck

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

Martha Beck

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

Marion Cotillard

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

Maria Callas

Only my dogs will not betray me.

Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Pam Brown

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Julia Roberts

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

Kathleen Norris

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.