Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Richard Burton

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Sylvia Plath

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Sylvia Plath

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Rosalind Wiseman

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Rumi

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Rumi

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Rumi

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Stephen Schwartz

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

Stephen Fry

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

Stephen Fry

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

St. Jerome

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Sri Chinmoy

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

Sri Chinmoy

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

Ruby Wax

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Ruby Wax

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Roger Rosenblatt

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.