Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

Henrik Ibsen

A friend married is a friend lost.

Henrik Ibsen

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Henri Nouwen

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Herschel Walker

God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.

Hesiod

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Hesiod

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

Herodotus

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

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.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Johanna Lindsey

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Kurt Cobain

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Kurt Cobain

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

Kurt Cobain

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Khalil Gibran

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Khalil Gibran

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.