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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am."


"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."


"Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber."


"If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me."



"There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years."


"True friendship doesn't include jealousy."


"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."


"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."


"That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right."



"You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?"


"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."


"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."


"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."


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


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


"Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way, in these times true friends are the ones who pick you up and dust you off."



"Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings."


"The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole."


"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."



"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."



"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen."


"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."


"President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had."


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


"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."


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


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


"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."


"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."


"Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long."


"There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor."



"A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady."


"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."


"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends."


"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."


"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."


"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."


"If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend."


"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."


"We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end."



"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
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