Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

William Shakespeare

Friendship's full of dregs.

William Shakespeare

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

William Shakespeare

Friendship is full of dregs.

Ed Cunningham

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

Edwin Louis Cole

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Edward Lear

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

Edgar Guest

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

Edgar Guest

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

Edgar Guest

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends....

Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

Benjamin Franklin

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

Benjamin Franklin

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

Benjamin Franklin

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

Benjamin Franklin

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

Benjamin Franklin

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

Benjamin Franklin

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Benjamin Franklin

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.

Jane Austen

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jamie Lee Curtis

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

James Wolfe

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

Jason Aldean

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

Barbara Tuchman

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.