Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Williams

Volunteers are caring friends

Colin Powell

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

E. B. White

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

E. B. White

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

E. B. White

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Donald Trump

Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

Curtis Jackson

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

Confucius

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Confucius

There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

Confucius

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

Confucius

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Cyndi Lauper

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

Cyndi Lauper

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Dave Matthews

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

Dave Matthews

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

Dave Matthews

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

Dave Matthews

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

Dave Matthews

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

David Levithan

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Dodie Smith

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

Dodie Smith

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

Diogenes

All things are in common among friends.

Diogenes

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Desmond Morris

A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

Amber Riley

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

Amber Heard

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Anna Quindlen

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

Anna Quindlen

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.