Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can keep your friends by not giving them away.

Ken Ham

Congratulations on a truly spectacular test flight. Welcome home friends.

Thomas Fuller

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

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

Cynthia Heimel

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alexander Pope

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

Duke of Wellington

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Dalai Lama

The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

Amber Tamblyn

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Amber Tamblyn

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Anne Beatts

A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

Anne Stevenson

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Anne Stevenson

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

Anne Rivers Siddons

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

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.

D. H. Lawrence

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

Confucius

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

Confucius

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

Ambrose Bierce

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce

TRUCE, n. Friendship.