Famous Quotes & Sayings

Celine Dion

You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.

Carnie Wilson

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

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

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

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

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Tom and I struck up a friendship in 1992 through the Michigan Political Leadership program

Sallust

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.