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"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." »Abraham Lincoln
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"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." »Chinese Proverb
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"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking
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"Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'" »Shusha Guppy
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"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend." »Saadi
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"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 Grier
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"To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady." »Wilson Mizner
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"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally." »Lillian Day
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"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." »William Shakespeare
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"The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings." »Dan Cook
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"A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman." »American Proverb
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"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman." »Herbert Spencer
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"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." »Bible
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"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." »Bible, Old Testament
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"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The First lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband." »Lady Bird Johnson
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"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband." »Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." »Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." »Homer
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"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way." »Edgar Albert Guest
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"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." »Assyrian Proverb
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"What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love." »Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
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"lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers." »William Shakespeare
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"lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers." »William Shakespeare
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." »Thomas Huxley
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