Best Friend famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.
-- Ali Larter -
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
-- Alistair Cooke -
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...
-- Anna Godbersen -
What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
-- Aristophanes -
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
-- Aristotle -
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle -
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
-- Arthur Miller -
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.
-- Brittany Snow -
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'
-- Dax Shepard -
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
-- Edith Wharton -
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.
-- Emma Roberts -
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
-- Epictetus -
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
-- Frances Farmer -
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
-- Francois Mauriac -
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.
-- Francois Mauriac -
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
-- Gary Lawyer -
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
-- George Ade -
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
-- George Eliot -
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
-- George Eliot -
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
-- George Eliot -
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
-- Henry Ford -
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 -
A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.
-- Israel Putnam -
That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.
-- J. J. Johnson -
We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
-- Jack Irons -
I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.
-- Jack Lemmon -
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
-- Jacques Delille -
I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
-- Jasmine Guinness -
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
-- Jim Henson -
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
-- Jim Henson -
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
-- Joan Crawford -
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
-- John Keats -
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
-- John Lennon -
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.
-- Joseph Jekyll -
True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
-- Julia Roberts -
When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
-- Kaitlyn -
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
-- Khalil Gibran -
I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.
-- Kid Rock -
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
-- Kim Jong Il -
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
-- Kristin Hannah -
Best friends are forever. That's why they're called BFFs.
-- Lauren Conrad -
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
-- Len Wein -
Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
-- Lew Wallace -
I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
-- Li Na -
It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
-- Lily Rabe -
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'
-- Martha Plimpton -
It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.
-- Mink Stole -
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.
-- Minnie Driver -
If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.
-- Niecy Nash -
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
Somewhere on this planet is your best friend. Find that person.
-- Omar Kiam -
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.
-- Paul Gascoigne -
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
-- Paula Abdul -
Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication
-- Philippos Syrigos -
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
-- Plutarch -
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
-- Renee Olstead -
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
-- Renee Olstead -
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
-- Reverend Malcolm Boyd -
He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.
-- Richard Barnfield -
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.
-- Robin Wasserman -
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol -
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
-- Steig Larsson -
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
-- Thor Heyerdahl -
We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.
-- Tom Felton -
friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there
-- Tonya Hurley -
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
-- Truman Capote -
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
-- Walter Scott -
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
-- William Blake -
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
-- William Shakespeare -
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
-- William Temple -
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
-- Austin O'Malley -
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
