Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Cockburn

I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.

Barbara Kingsolver

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Arthur Miller

Be liked and you will never want.

Diane Keaton

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Debra Messing

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

Dean Smith

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Elbert Hubbard

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Edward Abbey

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Aristotle

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Aristotle

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle

A friend is another I.

Ben Kingsley

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.