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Friendship Quotes


"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."


"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."


"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."


"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."


"Breezy daysdeserve the unionof two old friends."


"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."


"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."


"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."


"Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years."


"In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends."


"I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues."


"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."


"We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together."


"No man is useless while he has a friend."


"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."


"Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can."


"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."


"I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry."


"The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters."


"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."


"I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships."


"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."


"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!"


"It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy."


"Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship."


"Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it."


"Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends."


"I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."


"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."


"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."


"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."


"Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that."


"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."


"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."


"We'll just sit here," said Barney, "and if we think of anything worth while saying we'll say it. Otherwise, not. Don't imagine you're bound to talk to me.""John Foster says," quoted Valancy, "'If you can sit in silencewith a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, youand that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'llnever be and you need not waste time in trying.'""Evidently John Foster says a sensible thing once in a while,"conceded Barney."


"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."


"I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them."


"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."


"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."


"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."


"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."


"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."


"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."


"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."


"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have."


"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
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