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Friendship Quotes


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


"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."



"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ."


"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."


"A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid."


"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."



"My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do."



"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar."



"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."


"De pronto no puedo decírtelo que yo te debo decir, hombre, perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end."


"I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs."


"When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"



"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."



"I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend."



"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group."


"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship."


"That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other."


"A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have."


"My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost."


"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."



"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."


"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."


"And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that."


"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water."


"Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little."



"While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp.'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.''That's your only comment?' Piper demanded.He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--''I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.''That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.''Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said.Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys."


"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."


"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."


"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."


"The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers."


"I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest."



"My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends."


"The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them."


"My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness."


"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"


"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."


"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."


"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."



"I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally."


"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."


"He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans."


"May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks."


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


"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."


"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."


"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."
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