Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gay

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

Jonathan Davis

Real friends stab you in the front.

Paramahansa Yogananda

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Ovid

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

P. C. Cast

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

Mary Pipher

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pete Wentz

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

Quintilian

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Plutarch

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Picabo Street

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Jimmy Buffett

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

Jimmy Buffett

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Jimmy Buffett

We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

George MacDonald

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George Lindsey

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Emily Mortimer

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Elvis Presley

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

Elvis Presley

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Elizabeth Fishel

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Joan Cusack

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Joan Cusack

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

John D. MacDonald

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.