Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beverley Mitchell

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

Beverly Cleary

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last.

This gift represents the true friendship that the people of Kuwait feel for the people of the United States.

Barbara Kingsolver

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Ben E. King

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Charles R. Swindoll

Friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles Kingsley

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Jane Austen

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Arthur Conan Doyle

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

Anton Chekhov

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Anton Chekhov

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Ariel Sharon

I know I have been portrayed as a general looking for war. Many other headlines speak of that. That's what people say. But I understand the importance of peace because I saw the horrors of war. That's how I see it. I lost my best friends in battles.. and I had to make decisions of life and death, of others and myself.

Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Blaise Pascal

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

A friend is another I.

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

David Nicholls

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.