Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Walter Scott

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Winston Churchill

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Tony Visconti

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Samuel Johnson

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation....

William Hazlitt

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

William Hazlitt

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

Walter Raleigh

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

W. Somerset Maugham

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

William Penn

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

William Penn

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

I'll miss his father-like guidance, his friendship and his yelling, because he didn't yell often but when he did, he sounded like Kermit the Frog. I'll miss his smile because he smiled with his whole face. You knew everything was going to be all right.

Jim Davies

The club's long gone but the friendship goes on,

Milan Kundera

To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.

Mick Taylor

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Joseph Addison

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Joseph Addison

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Joseph Addison

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Jordin Sparks

I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.

Jorge Luis Borges

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

Kurt Cobain

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Kurt Cobain

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

Khalil Gibran

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Khalil Gibran

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Khalil Gibran

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Jonathan Swift

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Jonathan Swift

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.