Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Olive Schreiner

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

O. Henry

No friendship is an accident.

Octavia Butler

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Norman Vincent Peale

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.

Emilie Autumn

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

Epicurus

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Epicurus

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epictetus

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Epictetus

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Epictetus

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Emily Dickinson

A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

Emily Dickinson

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Emily Dickinson

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

Zhu Rongji

I want to stress in particular the personal friendship the prime minister and I have already forged,

Patrice Bergeron

After the trade ... we knew we had to regroup as a team and move on. Joe was a friend and a big part of the team, but we told ourselves we have to start playing because we might lose somebody else.

Yoko Ono

It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine, Cynthia.

Cynthia Lennon

It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine.

Then when I was fifteen, fourteen, a friend of mine and I from Scarsdale used to come into New York every Saturday to see a matinee on Broadway.

That's a good idea! Now, what do you think I should get for my turtle friend here, Denver?

It's nice to be important, but you know what, it's more important to be nice. ... If you live with that, you'll have friends all over the world and you'll be a friend of everybody.

Charles Bukowski

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Jose Maria

Syria has been and will be a friend of Spain. It will not be the target of any war actions,

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

George H. W. Bush

support of the kingdom to its friend the United States during its misfortune.