Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epicurus

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epictetus

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Emily Dickinson

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

Zhu Rongji

I want to stress in particular the personal friendship the prime minister and I have already forged,

Charles Bukowski

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Ray Stevenson

(They) were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves.

Mohammed Morsi

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nhat Hanh

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Nhat Hanh

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

Joey Lauren Adams

Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Joe Cocker

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Jodi Picoult

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

John Green

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Caroline Norton

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

Carly Simon

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

Eva Braun

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

Mindy Kaling

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

Mindy Kaling

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Mickey Rooney

John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

Kirk Kerkorian

I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

Kim Basinger

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

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 vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

Ovid

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

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.