Famous Quotes

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."

Tahar Ben Jelloun on Friendship

More quotes about Friendship

• "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

  Elbert Hubbard on Friendship

• "Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

  Albert Camus on Friendship

• "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

  Buddha on Friendship

• "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

  Muhammad Ali on Friendship

• "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

  Oprah Winfrey on Friendship

More quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

• "People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."

• "Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

• "I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

• "Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."

• "Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."