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Friendship Quotes


"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."


"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."


"My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife."



"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."



"As friends go it is less important to live."


"Be with people who like you for who you are, not what you have."



"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."


"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."


"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."



"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."


"You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?"


"And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future."


"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."



"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."


"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."



"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached."


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


"Your friend is your needs answered."


"It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends."


"Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects."


"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."


"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"


"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart."



"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."


"There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends."


"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."


"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."


"Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there."


"Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead."


"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."


"You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend."


"It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend."


"And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with."


"The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends."


"In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away."


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


"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."


"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."


"For there is no such thing: Right person at the right time! Instead with the right team, Embrace Time that simply flies.Never when meeting old friends Does time really pass by?In trust and truth they make amends So Time they can really defy. Hence, no one denies then: In all it revitalizes. Principled friendship never dies!"



"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."


"My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed."


"I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends."


"I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough."


"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."


"At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends."


"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
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