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Friendship Quotes


"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."


"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain."


"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."


"No one is more beautiful to me than a person who's easy to talk to."


"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."


"I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal."


"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."


"We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding."


"My beautiful friend,even on your darkest day i have benefited from the warmth of your light. and i know i'm not the only one. even when you are not consciously giving, you are still giving so much. with your openness, your kindness, your understanding. see yourself through my eyes, for just a moment. feel yourself through my heart.Allow me the honor of reflecting back to you the love you have shown me, time and again, when it was only real love, and real friendship that could have pulled me from the pain. let me take some of your pain now. I am here. I am yours. You are mine, my friend. I am grateful."


"We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks."


"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."


"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming."


"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."


"Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious."



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


"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."


"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."


"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."



"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."


"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."


"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."


"The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner."


"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."


"President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had."


"I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there."


"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."


"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 have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."


"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."


"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."


"I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read."


"It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host."


"Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry."


"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."


"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."


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


"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."


"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."


"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."


"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"


"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples."


"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."


"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm."


"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."


"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."


"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime."
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