Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

John Wooden

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Michael Buble

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Merle Haggard

We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

Merle Haggard

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

Mason Cooley

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Mason Cooley

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

Mason Cooley

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

Mason Cooley

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

Mary Astell

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Paul Cezanne

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Oscar Wilde

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Madonna Ciccone

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

Madonna Ciccone

When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.

Mac Davis

Who discreetly whispers you forgot to zip up your pants? You babe, you're my bestest friend.

Louis Kronenberger

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

Liv Ullmann

Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

Margaret Mahy

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

Michel de Montaigne

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Michel de Montaigne

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel de Montaigne

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Michel de Montaigne

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

Markus Zusak

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Jeff Cohen

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

John Evelyn

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

Charles Eastman

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Richard Rossi

I lost pretty good. We worked hard and we tried to get as many people out as we could. I guess there won't be much of a change. I'll be on the Friendship Party as an independent in the fall. I'm not sure how hard we're going to work at this time.