Famous Friendship Saying

Famous Friendship Saying

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W. H. Auden

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Little friends may prove great friends.
Aesop

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
Mother Teresa

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance
Dale Carnegie

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac

A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, Would rather be the one experiencing the pain, Than to have to watch their friend suffer.
Amanda Gier

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
Spanish Proverb

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
Joseph Addison

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
Mark Twain

Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Rudyard Kipling

A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.
Arch Ward

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
Mark Twain

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.
Epictetus

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

In my friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Edward M. Forster

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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Leon Uris

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Friends Are Treasures
Horace Bruns

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
Source Unknown

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Von Goethe

There is magic in long-distance friendships.They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
Diana Cortes

He had said his good-byes to his family and to his friends. He is distressed that he has had to put these people that he cares about through this process and may only have to put them through it again.”
Robert Nigh

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?
Sharon Stone

Friends are born, not made.
Henry Brooks Adams

As for us, my little friend, wee entered [the Communist Party] because we were tired of dying of hunger.
Jean-Paul Sartre