Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Ambrose Bierce

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

Ambrose Bierce

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

Ambrose Bierce

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

Ambrose Bierce

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Ambrose Bierce

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Ambrose Bierce

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

Alice Miller

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

Alice Cooper

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey stoopid.

Alice Cooper

If you could use your brain like you use your ass...

Anne Lamott

Close friendships are one of life's miracles--that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Albert Camus

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

Albert Camus

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

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.

Albert Camus

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Anna Quindlen

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

Anna Quindlen

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

Andrew Greeley

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

Alphonse Karr

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Alphonse Karr

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Ann Richards

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Anatole France

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

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!

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

William Shakespeare

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

William Shakespeare

Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

We have a very strong troupe this year, and it's because we're all friends and we have a group mind.

Sylvester Stallone

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Rajneesh

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.