Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Hosea Ballou

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hannah Arendt

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

James Brown

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

James Boswell

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

James Boswell

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Jacques Delille

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Chirac

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

Isaac Barrow

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Frank Zappa

Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.

Frank Zappa

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

Jeanette Winterson

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

Jeanette Winterson

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Jessy Schram

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

Jethro Tull

She's a warm fart at Christmas.

Jethro Tull

A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

Jethro Tull

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

Jeremy Taylor

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....

Jeremy Taylor

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

Jena Malone

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Jemaine Clement

I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

Jemima Kirke

I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.