Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Jeffers

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

Sue Wicks

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

Steven Tyler

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Steven Tyler

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

Stevie Nicks

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

Robert Burns

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Robert Browning

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

Robert Browning

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

Robert Browning

What joy is better than news of friends?

Robert Browning

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Robert Browning

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Richard Steele

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

T. Harv Eker

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

T. Harv Eker

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

T. S. Eliot

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Sydney J. Harris

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Sylvester Stallone

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Suzanne Massie

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

Stuart Wilde

Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.

Sting

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Stevie Smith

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

Solon

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Solon

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Stephen Schwartz

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.