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Friendship Quotes


"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."


"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."


"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."


"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."


"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."


"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."


"We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it."


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


"Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song."


"All you need to do to be my friend is like me."


"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."


"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."


"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy."


"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."


"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."


"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."


"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."


"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."


"I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry."


"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."


"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."


"Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that."


"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."


"The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it."


"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."



"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."


"What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating."


"My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history."


"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."


"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."


"The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago."


"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life."


"What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt."


"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."


"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."


"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."


"I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line."


"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."


"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."


"I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback."


"There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor."


"That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did."


"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."
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