Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Cassandra Clare

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

George Eliot

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

James Brown

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

James Boswell

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

James Boswell

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Jacques Delille

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Chirac

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

Isaac Barrow

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Isaac Disraeli

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Elton John

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

Elton John

It was Saturday late, have you seen my mates, can you tell me when the boys get here? Well, it's seven o'clock and I want to rock and get a belly full of beer.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Georges Bernanos

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

George Sand

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Jean Paul

It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."

Jean Paul

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Jean Paul

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Jim Henson

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Jerome K. Jerome

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.