Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Marc Bolan

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Kinky Friedman

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kiana Tom

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

Kenny Rogers

Friendships come and go, but families are forever....

Margaret Thatcher

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

Margaret Cavendish

one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...

Mark Twain

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

That's an unfair thing. Houston is a friend of mine.

B. C. Forbes

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

B. C. Forbes

A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Mary Pipher

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Peter Stone

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Quintilian

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Prince William

When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

Plutarch

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Plutarch

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

Plutarch

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Plutarch

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Plutarch

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

Plutarch

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Picabo Street

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

Phillips Brooks

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.