Famous Quotes & Sayings

Faith Hill

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Ezra Taft Benson

Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Euripides

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Francis Quarles

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francesco Guicciardini

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francis Bacon

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Francis Bacon

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Francis Bacon

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart....

Francis Bacon

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Groucho Marx

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

Graham Greene

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Golda Meir

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Giuliana Rancic

I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

Harriet Lerner

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Homer

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Horace Bushnell

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

Hugo Black

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Hugh Prather

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Hosea Ballou

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hannah Arendt

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Good to the poor, to kindred dear, / To servants kind, to friendship clear, / To nothing but herself severe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

George Bernard Shaw

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.