Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Williamson

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Henry Ward Beecher

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry James

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Henry James

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry Drummond

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Henry Fielding

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Henry Fielding

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Henry Fielding

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Judith Martin

There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

Judith Martin

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.

Katharine Whitehorn

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Katharine Hepburn

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

How different everything is when you are with the right people!

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Judith Viorst

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

Joseph Conrad

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Kate Moss

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

Leonard Cohen

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Leighton Meester

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Lauren Alaina

I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.

Lauren Bacall

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

Lanny Wadkins

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

Madame de Stael

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Harlan Coben

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

Gustavo Kuerten

And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers.

Greg Bear

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Gordon Lightfoot

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

Gordon Lightfoot

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.