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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends."


"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."


"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."


"Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations."



"I have friends who read my books in Greek."


"Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure."


"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."


"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."


"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."


"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."


"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter."


"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."


"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book."


"Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president."


"In a dog's world,would we be his best friend?"


"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."


"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."


"I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends."


"Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out."


"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."


"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."


"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."


"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."


"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."


"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."


"Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake."


"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."


"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."


"Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war."


"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."


"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."


"My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self."


"Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher."


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


"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."


"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."


"This is Annabeth, Jason said. "Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people."



"She climbs inside the car and they leave, and I just stand there watching them because I don't know that I've ever had a friend like her in my whole life. Maybe it's the wine. I don't know, but I love today. Everything about it. I especially love how Ryle looks, leaning against my car, watching me."You're really beautiful when you're happy."
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