Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

David Morrissey

All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

Chet Atkins

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

Charlize Theron

've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before [the wedding]? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later."

Edmund Burke

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Elie Wiesel

Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit, and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

Calista Flockhart

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

Bipasha Basu

Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.

Bob Marley

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim...

Bob Marley

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say

Bob Marley

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Bill Watterson

Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.

Bob Hope

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

Diane Duane

You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.

Armistead Maupin

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

Apolo Ohno

Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.

Chelsea Handler

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.'

Ed Sheeran

It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'

Bobby Seale

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

Bob Dylan

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Boy George

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

Brian P. Cleary

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Burt Reynolds

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Carl Jung

Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul, George, and Ringo." He pauses, seeing the blank look on my face and groaning when he says, "Christ, Ever, the Beatles!" He shakes his head and laughs. "God, you make me feel old.

Carrot Top

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

Al Franken

Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine.

Adam Rich

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

Diogenes

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.