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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love."


"Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends."


"I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see."


"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."


"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."


"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."


"Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot."


"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."


"I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them."


"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."


"And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn."


"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."


"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."


"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."


"I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'"


"He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one."


"I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends."


"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."


"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere."


"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."


"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."


"We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely."


"Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers."


"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."


"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."


"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."


"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."


"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."


"The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom."


"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie."


"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."


"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."


"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."


"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."



"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."


"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."


"Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"


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


"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."


"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."


"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."


"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."


"And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years."


"If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend."



"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."


"They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors."
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