Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

Mary Tyler Moore

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

Plautus

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Plautus

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Plautus

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]

Plautus

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Plautus

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plato

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Paula Abdul

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Paula Abdul

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Philip Sidney

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

Peggy Noonan

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Marlene Dietrich

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Mariah Carey

Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

Meat Loaf

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

May Sarton

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

May Sarton

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

Michael Buble

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Merle Haggard

We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

Merle Haggard

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

Mason Cooley

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Mason Cooley

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

Mason Cooley

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

Mason Cooley

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

Mary Astell

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Mencius

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Ted Rall

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Ted Nugent

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

Theophile Gautier

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.