Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Churton Collins

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Alice Walker

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Randall Collins

The Friendship School has been a success, a big success. Many of the solutions for educational funding are going to rest on a regional basis.

Eric Hoffer

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

Norman Maclean

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Omar Khayyam

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Emilie Autumn

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

Epictetus

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Emily Dickinson

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

Zhu Rongji

I want to stress in particular the personal friendship the prime minister and I have already forged,

Charles Bukowski

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Ray Stevenson

(They) were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves.

It's good here. I've got friends. That's one there. That's one of them.

When we're on tour, to make 8,000 friends would take a long time.

Mohammed Morsi

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nhat Hanh

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Joe Cocker

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Jodi Picoult

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Caroline Norton

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Eva Braun

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

Mindy Kaling

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Mickey Rooney

John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

Kirk Kerkorian

I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

Kim Basinger

That was the first time I knew I loved him.