Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Sylvia Plath

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Sylvia Plath

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Rosalind Wiseman

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Rumi

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Rumi

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Rumi

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Steve Lopez

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Stephanie Klein

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

Viktor E. Frankl

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

Vanna Bonta

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Vanna Bonta

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Sophocles

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Sophocles

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Stephen King

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Stephanie Mills

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Stephen Ambrose

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised....

Sophie Swetchine

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.