Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

Mason Cooley

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

Mason Cooley

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

Mary Astell

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Menander

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Mencius

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Ted Rall

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Ted Nugent

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

Theodore White

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

Theophile Gautier

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Themistocles

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Margaret Mead

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

Margaret Mead

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

Margaret Fuller

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

Marcus Garvey

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

I have wonderful support from my friends. They help me a lot.

I'm just happy to have him. He was one of my friends when he went to Hollywood. We used to hang out. I'd go watch his games, and he'd come watch us. Now, it's just great that we can be on the same team.

Jim Davies

The club's long gone but the friendship goes on,

Neale Donald Walsch

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Neale Donald Walsch

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Nancy Reagan

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Milan Kundera

To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.

Mick Taylor

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Margaret Whiting

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Joseph Addison

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Joseph Addison

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Joseph Addison

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Laura Marling

People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.