Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

A friend is another I.

Ben Kingsley

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

Samuel Butler

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Christopher Knight

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Laura Leighton

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

When we're on tour, to make 8,000 friends would take a long time.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Adam Sandler

I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.

You make enough to sustain yourself and a coach, but not enough to be frivolous. Your friends don't really understand that.

Alexander Smith

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

We worked together for six years and our wives are still good friends.

A. A. Milne

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

A. A. Milne

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

A. A. Milne

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

A. A. Milne

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

A. E. Housman

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

A. A. Milne

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Aeschylus

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.