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Friendship Quotes
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
477
"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."
239
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
239
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
231
"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
223
"When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row."
214
"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
211
"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."
209
"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
205
"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
202
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
195
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."
191
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
189
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
184
"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."
176
"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."
176
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
175
"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
175
"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
175
"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."
173
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
172
"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."
169
"I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures."
169
"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
167
"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."
166
"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."
166
"We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye."
165
"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!"
165
"By being friends with all, we are not alone."
159
"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"
155
"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."
155
"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
153
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
152
"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."
151
"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."
151
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
138
"The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution."
134
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
128
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
128
"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."
126
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
121
"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us."
113
"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
109
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
107
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
106
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
102
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
102
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