Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Euripides

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Francis Quarles

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francesco Guicciardini

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francis Bacon

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Francis Bacon

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Francis Bacon

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart....

Francis Bacon

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Francis Bacon

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Frances Farmer

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Fran Lebowitz

It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

Fran Lebowitz

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

Fran Lebowitz

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Fran Lebowitz

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed ...

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

George Washington

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

George Washington

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

George Washington

Letters of friendship require no study.

George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

George Washington

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Santayana

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

George Sand

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

George Sand

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Jean Paul

It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."