Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom and I struck up a friendship in 1992 through the Michigan Political Leadership program

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking/ Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

These were good friends -- knew each other since they were 9. Never fought. It should be a lesson to other youths.

I sent it to my friends, and I sent it to my husband. I just sent it to people who I thought were speeders.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Phil Gramm

With friendship or support, it's not something that you buy,

Richard Widmark

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

Richard Whately

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Richelle Mead

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Richard Barnfield

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

Russell Crowe

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

Rick Riordan

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Rick James

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

Paramahansa Yogananda

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

Ovid

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

P. C. Cast

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Mary Pipher

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pete Wentz

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

Peter Stone

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Quintilian

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Prince William

When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

Plutarch

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.