Famous Quotes & Sayings

Logan Pearsall Smith

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Mao Zedong

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Lucy Larcom

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

Louis Untermeyer

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

Louisa May Alcott

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

John Gay

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

John Gay

To friendship every burden's light.

Linda Gray

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

Linda Ellerbee

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Leo Szilard

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Lauren Conrad

As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.

Lauren Conrad

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

Leon Uris

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

John Dryden

The wretched have no friends.

John Mayall

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Lyly

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

John Lubbock

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

John Lennon

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

John Lennon

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

John Lennon

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Jimmy Dean

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Jimmy Buffett

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

Jimmy Buffett

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Jimmy Buffett

We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

George MacDonald

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George Lindsey

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Emily Mortimer

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.