Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Sophocles

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Sophocles

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Stephen King

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Stephanie Mills

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Stephen Ambrose

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised....

Sophie Swetchine

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Sophie Swetchine

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Sophia Bush

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Thomas Carlyle

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Tommy Rettig

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Steve Miller

Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.

Steve Miller

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

Steve Berry

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Stephen King

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Stendhal

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shawn Mendes

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

Scott Wolf

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

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.

Rachel True

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

Rainbow Rowell

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Tennessee Williams

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.