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Friendship Quotes
"So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me."
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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
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"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
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"My beautiful friend,even on your darkest day i have benefited from the warmth of your light. and i know i'm not the only one. even when you are not consciously giving, you are still giving so much. with your openness, your kindness, your understanding. see yourself through my eyes, for just a moment. feel yourself through my heart.Allow me the honor of reflecting back to you the love you have shown me, time and again, when it was only real love, and real friendship that could have pulled me from the pain. let me take some of your pain now. I am here. I am yours. You are mine, my friend. I am grateful."
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"My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams."
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"I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them."
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"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
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"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
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"No nation has friends only interests."
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"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
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"I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend."
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"Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious."
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"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."
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"I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see."
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"Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward."
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"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys."
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"Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't."
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"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."
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"What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?"
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"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."
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"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
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"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
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"William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still."
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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
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"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community."
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"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
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"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
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"To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand."
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"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."
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"No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed."
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"One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy."
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"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."
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"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention."
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"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors."
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"Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage."
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"I have always done films with friends rather than strangers."
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
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"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."
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"When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there."
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"The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government."
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"A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France."
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"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld."
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"Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great."
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