Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Temple

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

William Temple

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

We'll always be friends. I like the idea of seeing each other being really old and doddery.

Bill Cosby

You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

C. S. Lewis

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past....

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.

All my friends started jumping in the river and that's when I realised I'd won.

All my friends don't recognize me without a limp.

Absolutely. There are no friends on the court.

It's just fun being with friends and to come out and have a good time. Practice is serious, this is fun.

Charles Bukowski

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

Kevin Moore

It's tough not having any down time. But it's something I've always done. I have a lot of friends on the team and I love playing basketball.

I liked helping people. I loved being a policeman. I had a lot of friends there and I really missed it when I got off.

It was a factor. Winning friends by helping them out, giving them money, is always a big deal.

Zhu Rongji

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

It's nice to have friends. You have someone to hang out with, do stuff with.

David Healy

It's strange. I don't even know about friends, what they think about me, ... You don't really know who you can trust.

I wanted to meet some more friends and be part of a larger social circle.

Ray Stevenson

(They) were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Cyril Connolly

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Cyril Connolly

Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.

Clifford Stoll

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

E. W. Howe

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

E. W. Howe

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

E. W. Howe

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

E. W. Howe

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Garth Brooks

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

Under this system, they can put (unused) tickets back in the system for resale or designate them to their friends.