Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Steven Tyler

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Robert Browning

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

Robert Browning

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Mariah Carey

Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mason Cooley

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Paul Cezanne

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Liv Ullmann

Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Christiane Amanpour

I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.

Jerome K. Jerome

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

Jean Cocteau

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Jeanette Winterson

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Jena Malone

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Good memories are seeing a lot of good friends,

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

How can you owe a friend? Friends stand by each other through everything.

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

Mike is a guy who trusts his friends.

Ralph Macchio

My life is all the richer for having known him, ... I will miss his genuine friendship.

My friends in Mankato pay $200 a month for large rooms and I pay $295 a month for a room that is made for elves. The way I see it is if we are paying more we should at least see a difference.

Jose Guillen

I think enough is enough. We used to be friends, but that relationship is over.

Joe Glenn

I said, 'Marty get your stuff and get out of there,' ... We have too many friends in Greeley to even listen to these kids (who wanted to transfer to Wyoming). Well, Marty got up here and his phone kept ringing and ringing.

Georg Cantor

started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

Local legislatures, politicians, friends of the university and students will be able to come see the building.

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

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....