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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."


"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."


"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog."


"A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific."


"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."


"It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have."


"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."


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


"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."


"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."


"The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them."


"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"


"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."


"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."


"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."


"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."


"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."


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


"They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other."


"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."


"Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer."


"I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person."


"It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend."


"I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world."


"I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot."


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


"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."


"My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband."


"You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe."


"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."


"John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort."


"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."


"The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone."


"I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'."


"You can't eat your friends and have them too."


"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."


"My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will."


"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."


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



"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"


"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."
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