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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."
92
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
78
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."
68
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
65
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
65
"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
62
"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
62
"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
60
"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."
57
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
55
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
55
"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
52
"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
52
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
50
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
48
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
47
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
46
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
45
"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."
45
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
44
"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."
43
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
43
"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"
42
"We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye."
42
"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
42
"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."
41
"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."
41
"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"By being friends with all, we are not alone."
40
"When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row."
40
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
39
"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!"
39
"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."
39
"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
37
"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."
37
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
36
"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."
35
"I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures."
33
"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
33
"Even the strongest man needs friends."
31
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
31
"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."
31
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
29
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
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