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Friendship Quotes


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


"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."


"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself."


"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."


"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."


"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."


"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."


"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."


"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."


"What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk."


"A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview."


"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker."


"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."


"I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them."


"My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection."


"I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting."


"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."


"The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar."


"I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal."



"You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities."


"As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip."


"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."


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


"Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question."


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


"Where there are friends there is wealth."


"My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show."


"Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend."


"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."


"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."


"In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends."


"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."


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


"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."


"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."


"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."


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


"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes."


"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."


"My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things."


"A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen."


"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."


"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."


"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."



"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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