Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Ellerbee

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Leo Szilard

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lisa Vanderpump

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Lisa Whelchel

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Ludacris

It's a drought in your brain.

Louis Aragon

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Loretta Lynn

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

Lord Byron

Frienship is eros...without wings

M. F. K. Fisher

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

Loren Eiseley

I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

Lord Chesterfield

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Lord Chesterfield

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Lord Chesterfield

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Lord Chesterfield

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Lord Chesterfield

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Lord Chesterfield

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

Magic Johnson

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Major Taylor

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Harlan Coben

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

Gustavo Kuerten

And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers.

Greg Bear

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Gordon Lightfoot

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

Gordon Lightfoot

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.