Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Trey Parker

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Walt Whitman

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Sarah Fielding

[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

Sarah Dessen

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Rod McKuen

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Rod Stewart

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Robin Morgan

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Zora Neale Hurston

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Jeffrey Robbins

I've had friends jumped before, but it wasn't with weapons and nothing on this scale.

Shawn Woods

It's good to be at home, ... It's neat to have parents and friends come and watch. We had more than 100 people there, and that is a good crowd.

Kenneth Smith

It's good here. I've got friends. That's one there. That's one of them.

Matt Kelley

When we're on tour, to make 8,000 friends would take a long time.

Lisa Bailey

It's just fun being with friends and to come out and have a good time. Practice is serious, this is fun.

Lil' Kim

A lot of people let me down, ... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

Alex Lewis

They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hours in the gym and the weight room that we know each other so well. We have a lot of respect for each other, and this was a big part of my life that I'm going to miss now.

Jason Breiholz

They're such good friends, and Ryan has everything to lose, and Joe doesn't.

William Shenstone

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

William H. Gass

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Arthur Ward

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

William Feather

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

William Prescott

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Turkish Proverb

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Turkish Proverbs

Do what your teacher says but not what he does.

English 16th Century Proverbs

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.