Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thucydides

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thornton Wilder

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thomas More

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Thomas Hughes

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Huxley

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Thomas F. Wilson

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Rumi

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Rumi

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Steve Lopez

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Stephanie Klein

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

Viktor E. Frankl

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

Stevie Wonder

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

Stevie Wonder

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

Steven Moffat

You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with – this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or with Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

Susan Jeffers

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

Steven Tyler

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

Stevie Nicks

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

Robert Burns

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Robert Browning

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

Robert Browning

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

Robert Browning

What joy is better than news of friends?

Robert Browning

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Robert Browning

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Richard Steele

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

T. S. Eliot

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Sydney J. Harris

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Sylvester Stallone

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Rick Riordan

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Rick James

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.