Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lisa Vanderpump

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Lyndon B. Johnson

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

Ludacris

It's a drought in your brain.

Loretta Lynn

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

Lord Byron

Frienship is eros...without wings

M. F. K. Fisher

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

Loren Eiseley

I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

Lord Chesterfield

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Lord Chesterfield

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Lord Chesterfield

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Lord Chesterfield

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Lord Chesterfield

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Lord Chesterfield

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

Mahatma Gandhi

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Norman Maclean

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Omar Khayyam

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Olive Schreiner

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

O. Henry

No friendship is an accident.

Octavia Butler

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Norman Vincent Peale

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.