Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas S. Monson

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

Robert Hewison

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

Robert Griffin III

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

Robert Ballard

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Robert Baden-Powell

I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

Robert Baden-Powell

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Richard M. Nixon

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

Rebecca Wells

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Richard Burton

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Tupac Shakur

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

Tupac Shakur

That girl can barely spell her name.

Trey Parker

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Tori Amos

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Vera Brittain

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Venus Williams

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Vera Farmiga

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

Robert Vaughn

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

Robert E. Lee

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Richard Widmark

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

Richard Whately

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Richelle Mead

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Richard Barnfield

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

Russell Crowe

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

Rick Riordan

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Rick James

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

Torquato Tasso

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

Tony Visconti

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Robert Graves

Well, we've been lucky devils both And there is no need for a pledge or oath To bind our lovely friendship fast, By firmer stuff Close bound enough.

Samuel Johnson

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Samuel Johnson

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation....