Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

Letters of friendship require no study.

George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

George Washington

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Santayana

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

Eminem

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Elvis Costello

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

Elvis Costello

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

Hilary Rhoda

Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.

Hill Harper

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

Hillary Clinton

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

Helen Keller

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Helen Keller

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Cassandra Clare

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

George Eliot

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

George Eliot

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

George Eliot

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Aaron Boone

I'm actually pretty good friends with him. I didn't really think much of that last year, or much of this. It's in the game, and that's what happens.

I love what I do. I've made lifelong friends with the kids and their parents.

Julia Child

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Judith Guest

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Joseph Joubert

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Joseph Joubert

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.