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Friendship Quotes


"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."


"I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them."


"But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"


"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."



"Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that."


"I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal."



"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."


"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."


"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do."



"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."


"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."


"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."



"Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure."


"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."



"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."



"Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate."



"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."


"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."


"Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others."


"My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will."



"Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?"The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?"


"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."


"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."



"All you need to do to be my friend is like me."


"If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me."


"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."



"Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."



"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."


"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."


"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."


"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?"


"My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them."


"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain."


"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."


"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."


"We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding."


"I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read."


"The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world."



"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."



"I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend."


"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."



"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."


"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."


"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."


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