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Friendship Quotes
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
102
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."
98
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
94
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
88
"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
77
"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
75
"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
74
"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
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"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
70
"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
64
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
63
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
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"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
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"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."
56
"Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction."
55
"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
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"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"
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"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
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"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
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"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
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"You can change friends but not neighbours."
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"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
50
"We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye."
50
"The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach."
50
"When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row."
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"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
49
"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
48
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
48
"Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless."
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"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."
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"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
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"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
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"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends."
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"By being friends with all, we are not alone."
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"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"
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"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
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"But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends."
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"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
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"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
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