Famous Quotations

This collection of popular sayings and quotations is compiled to not only improve your English but also the inspiring words of wisdom can make a positive impact on you.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
— Thomas Jefferson
Topic: Friendship

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
— Mary Catherwood
Topic: Friendship

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
Topic: Friendship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
— Robert Brault
Topic: Friendship

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
— Bertie C Forbes
Topic: Friendship

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
— Bill Cosby
Topic: Funny

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
Topic: Funny

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.
— Robert Downey
Topic: Funny

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
— Frank Sinatra
Topic: Funny

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
Topic: Funny

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