Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

Jean de la Bruyere

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

Jean de la Bruyere

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

Jean de la Bruyere

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

Jean de la Bruyere

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Jean de la Bruyere

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Jean de la Bruyere

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jay-Z

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

Jay McInerney

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Jay Leno

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Mindy Kaling

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

Mickey Rooney

John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

Kirk Kerkorian

I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

Kathleen Norris

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

Julia Child

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Judith Guest

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Joseph Joubert

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Joseph Joubert

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Joseph Joubert

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

Mojo Nixon

She's vibrator dependent.

J. K. Rowling

Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

J. K. Rowling

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

H. L. Mencken

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Gilbert Parker

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.