Famous Quotes
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson on Friendship
- Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson on Friendship
- People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.
- Jeff Ross on Friendship
- People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
- Lisa See on Friendship
- People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
- Isabel Lucas on Friendship
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- Aristotle on Friendship
- Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
- Oliver Goldsmith on Friendship
- Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
- Bradley Chicho on Friendship
- Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- Jean De La Fontaine on Friendship
- Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
- Greg Bear on Friendship
- Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
- George Herbert on Friendship
- Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Friendship
- Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Friendship
- Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
- Steven Van Zandt on Friendship
- Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
- Jeremy Taylor on Friendship
- She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Friendship
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
- Toni Morrison on Friendship
- Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
- Austin O'Malley on Friendship
- Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck on Friendship
- Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
- Francesco Guicciardini on Friendship
- Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
- Jonathan Edwards on Friendship
- Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
- Adam Sandler on Friendship
- So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
- John Tyler on Friendship
- So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller on Friendship
- Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
- Lauren Conrad on Friendship
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- Virginia Woolf on Friendship
- Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia Butler on Friendship
- Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
- Sting on Friendship
- Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
- Petrarch on Friendship
- Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
- Washington Irving on Friendship
- Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Friendship
- Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Friendship
- That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
- Francis Quarles on Friendship
- That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
- Randy West on Friendship
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
- Charles De Lint on Friendship
- The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
- William Shenstone on Friendship
- The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore on Friendship
- The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake on Friendship
- The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
- Jasmine Guy on Friendship
- The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
- Barack Obama on Friendship
- The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
- Mao Zedong on Friendship
- The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
- William Hazlitt on Friendship
- The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
- David Storey on Friendship
- The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
- Michelle Obama on Friendship
- The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson on Friendship
- The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
- Armistead Maupin on Friendship
- The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
- Sallust on Friendship
- The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
- Ulysses S. Grant on Friendship
- The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard on Friendship
- The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen on Friendship
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