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Friendship Quotes


"Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need. Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you."


"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."



"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country."


"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."


"I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools."


"Your friendship is our honour; your dreams are our duty. India's capacity may be limited, but our commitment is without limits. Our resources may be modest, but our will is boundless."



"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."


"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."


"Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful."


"Friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us."


"I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with."


"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."



"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."


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



"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."


"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."


"Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend."


"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"


"Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it."


"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."


"A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."


"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."


"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."


"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."


"I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money."


"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"



"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."


"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."


"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."


"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."


"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."



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



"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."



"I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night."


"French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real."


"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."


"But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends."



"I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff."


"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set."



"My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director."


"You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net."


"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."


"You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you.'He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. 'Why? I'm all those things and more.'I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel."


"Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came."
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