Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Kinky Friedman

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kenny Rogers

Friendships come and go, but families are forever....

Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Cavendish

one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...

B. C. Forbes

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

B. C. Forbes

A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Bruce Springsteen

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

Bruce Springsteen

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

Mary Pipher

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pete Wentz

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

Quintilian

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Plutarch

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Picabo Street

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.