Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Chanakya

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

Benjamin Franklin

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Arthur Miller

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.

George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself

Ali Larter

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.

Alistair Cooke

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.

A. Hodge

We are really looking forward to it. Hopefully we can pick up a few players and strengthen the side.

Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Erma Bombeck

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

J. K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

P. D. James

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Mark Twain

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Jon Foreman

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

St. Jerome

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

W. H. Auden

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Stross

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Charles Stanley

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Charles Spurgeon

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Charles Spurgeon

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

Alan Bennett

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

Alan Bennett

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.