Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Hale

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Marilyn vos Savant

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

Mary Wesley

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Mary Tyler Moore

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

Plautus

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Plautus

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Plautus

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Plautus

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]

Plautus

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

Plautus

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Plautus

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plato

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Paula Abdul

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Paula Abdul

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Philip Sidney

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

Peggy Noonan

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Marlene Dietrich

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Mariah Carey

Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

Maria Sharapova

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Meat Loaf

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

May Sarton

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

May Sarton

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

Michael Buble

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Merle Haggard

We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

Merle Haggard

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

Mason Cooley

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

Mason Cooley

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

Mason Cooley

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

Mason Cooley

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Mason Cooley

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Mason Cooley

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.