Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!....

Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Henry David Thoreau

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Mahatma Gandhi

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Malcolm X

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Jackson Pollock

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Randall Collins

The Friendship School has been a success, a big success. Many of the solutions for educational funding are going to rest on a regional basis.

Jacques Chirac

the friendship and the co-operation between our two countries.

Friedrich Schiller

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Friedrich Schiller

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

Jon Katz

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Lucan

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lord Chesterfield

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

John Churton Collins

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Cheever

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

John Cheever

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Alice Walker

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Sophocles

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Sophocles

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Ray Davies

You got all your friends, I got a TV set.

Ray Davies

You're dumb, but don't give in.

Rajneesh

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.