Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah McLachlan

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

Sanjay Dutt

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Samuel Johnson

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Samuel Johnson

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

Samuel Johnson

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Samuel Johnson

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

Samuel Johnson

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Samuel Johnson

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Vittorio Alfieri

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

Willa Cather

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Will Smith

I love you and I'm here for you.

Will Smith

If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.

Vincent Van Gogh

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Wayne Dyer

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

William Blake

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

William Blake

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.

William Blake

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Samuel Richardson

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Samuel Butler

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Hoffenstein

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Samuel Beckett

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

Whitney Houston

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.