Famous Quotes & Sayings

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Ben E. King

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Charles R. Swindoll

Friends make life a lot more fun.

We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

A friend is another I.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

David Nicholls

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

You can keep your friends by not giving them away.

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Abraham Lincoln

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

Alexander Pope

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Anne Sexton

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

D. H. Lawrence

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Anais Nin

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

Sylvester Stallone

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Rip Torn

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

Viktor E. Frankl

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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.