Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Swetchine

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Sophie Swetchine

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Sophia Bush

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Thomas Carlyle

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Tommy Rettig

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Steve Miller

Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.

Steve Miller

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

Steve Berry

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Stephen King

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Stendhal

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shawn Mendes

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

Scott Wolf

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Rachel True

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

Rainbow Rowell

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Tennessee Williams

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Ted Demme

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

Randolph Bourne

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

James McBride

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

Taylor Swift

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Sophie Kinsella

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Thomas Gray

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Thomas Gray

A fav'rite has no friend!

Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.