Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petrarch

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

We have to overlook the friendship part of it. With our size, we just have to play basketball.

We've disagreed, sometimes passionately. But we're still friends.

William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

William Shakespeare

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

When I went to the funeral, it was just ...it really hit me hard. I've never had a friend that young die.

Bryan Singer

We'd always written that role with him in mind. He's an old friend and this is a great opportunity for all the obvious reasons.

We like the people, we have a lot of fun. People say it's a friendly place. Most post offices are stuffy and boring.

Dane Cook

There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

Cyndi Lauper

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

Cyndi Lauper

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Dave Matthews

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

Dave Matthews

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

Dave Matthews

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

David Oyelowo

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.

Bruce Cameron

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

Frederick William Faber

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Meryl Streep

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Yevtushenko has written that 'A poet in Russia is more than a poet,' and throughout his life he has tried to justify this sentiment, ... The Order of Friendship Between Peoples.

Joe E. Lewis

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Clarence Thomas

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

Cyril Connolly

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Cyril Connolly

Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.

Clifford Stoll

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

E. W. Howe

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

E. W. Howe

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Garth Brooks

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

Ray Bradbury

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.