Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

Elinor Glyn

do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

Dirk Kempthorne

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

David Bowie

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

David Nicholls

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

William Temple

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

William Temple

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

Samuel Butler

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Christopher Knight

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Laura Leighton

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

Alexander Smith

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

Adam Sandler

I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Abraham Lincoln

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Ally Carter

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Allen Johnson

We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

Allen Tate

Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.

Ann Landers

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

Ann Brashares

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Andy Cohen

I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend.

Mohammed Morsi

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

Blake Shelton

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

Luanne Rice

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Adam Ant

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

Abraham Cowley

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.