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Friendship Quotes


"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."


"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."


"Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position."


"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."


"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom."



"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."


"My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism."


"I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends."


"You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone."


"Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can."


"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."


"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."


"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."


"I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend."



"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."


"Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward."


"People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality."


"The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom."



"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."


"No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed."


"You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend."


"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy."


"I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun."


"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."


"The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government."


"My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms."


"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."


"It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting."



"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."


"And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up."


"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."


"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."


"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."


"If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend."


"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."


"My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride."



"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."


"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."



"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."


"I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too."



"Everybody needs one essential friend."


"To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat."



"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."


"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."


"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."


"A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good."


"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
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