Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

It is a tribute to her reign and the ongoing friendship between our two nations.

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

Bob Seger

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

Chelsea Clinton

I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

Carl Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Calista Flockhart

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness.

Henry Van Dyke

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered.

We have a good friendship so it allows us to get in the gym together and get good practice in the off-season.

Petrarch

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

We have to overlook the friendship part of it. With our size, we just have to play basketball.

William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

William Shakespeare

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

William Shakespeare

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

William Shakespeare

Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

Dolly Wells

We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

Jo Coudert

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

James Taylor

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

James Stewart

The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.

James Lecesne

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.

John Evelyn

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Donne

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

John O'Donohue

The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul.

John O'Donohue

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.

John O'Donohue

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.