Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hesiod

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Hesiod

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

Herodotus

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

Henry Williamson

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Henry Ward Beecher

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry James

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Henry James

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry Drummond

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Henry Fielding

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Henry Fielding

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Henry Fielding

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Steven Wright

A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.

Steven Wright

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

Raymond Burr

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

Toni Morrison

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

Toni Morrison

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Tom Vilsack

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Tom Monaghan

In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.

Tom Hayden

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

Tina Fey

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

Katharine Whitehorn

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Katharine Hepburn

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

How different everything is when you are with the right people!

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Nicholas Breton

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Mark Twain

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Mary Renault

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Mary Schmich

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.