Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Swetchine

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Sophia Bush

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Taylor Swift

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Soren Kierkegaard

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Sophie Kinsella

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Thomas Gray

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Thomas Gray

A fav'rite has no friend!

Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Viktor Yushchenko

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

Ville Valo

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

Ville Valo

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Victor Hugo

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

Victor Hugo

Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

Victor Hugo

Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Victor Hugo

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

Richard Bach

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

Richard Bach

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Robert Frost

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Robert Frost

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

Robert Frost

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Robert Blair

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Rita Mae Brown

friendship is love made bearable.

Rita Mae Brown

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Thucydides

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thornton Wilder

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thomas More

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Thomas Hughes

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Huxley

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Thomas F. Wilson

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Thomas S. Monson

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.