Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Norris

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Julia Child

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Judith Guest

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Patti Smith

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

P. G. Wodehouse

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Ovid

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Ovid

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

Martha Beck

By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

Martha Beck

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

Martha Beck

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

Marion Cotillard

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

Maria Callas

Only my dogs will not betray me.

Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Pam Brown

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Julia Roberts

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

Joseph Joubert

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Joseph Joubert

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Joseph Joubert

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

Mojo Nixon

She's vibrator dependent.

Mark Twain

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

Publilius Syrus

Friendship is stronger than kindred.

Publilius Syrus

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.

Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.

Laurence J. Peter

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Oliver Goldsmith

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

Oliver Goldsmith

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.