Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

Robin Wasserman

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself

They look out for each other and the players are like a big group of brothers. It's close friends of the family to that I know that are in Austin. My uncle's mom is down there, so it really helped knowing I had family down there.

Li Na

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

Lauren Conrad

Best friends are forever. That's why they're called BFFs.

Lew Wallace

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Oscar Wilde

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

Joan Crawford

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Emma Roberts

I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

John Irving

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

George Ade

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Francois Mauriac

Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.

Gayle Forman

Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

They don't care who gets the points or the star of the game. Their chemistry is unbelievable. They're good friends off the court. It's just a camaraderie type of thing.

Chanakya

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Benjamin Franklin

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

I've been to this jazz festival more than any other. This is my favorite, I'd have to say. I have a lot of good friends that I've made over the past 25 years.

Arthur Miller

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Charles Kingsley

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Jasmine Guinness

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Donna Roberts

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Alistair Cooke

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

A. A. Milne

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Ali Larter

I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.

Dax Shepard

We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'

Anthony Kiedis

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Anne Lamott

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.