Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George Lindsey

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Emily Mortimer

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Elvis Presley

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

Elvis Presley

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Elizabeth Fishel

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Joan Cusack

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Joan Cusack

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Lois Wyse

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

Lois Wyse

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

Lois Wyse

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Lucy Larcom

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

Louis Untermeyer

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

Louisa May Alcott

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

John Gay

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

Jonathan Davis

Real friends stab you in the front.

Judith Martin

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.

James Lecesne

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.

Joe E. Lewis

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Joan Jett

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

Jimi Hendrix

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

Jimi Hendrix

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

Jim Morrison

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Eric Heiden

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

John Mellencamp

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

John Mellencamp

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.