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Friendship Quotes


"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."


"Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light."


"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."


"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."


"Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament."


"The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country."


"For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper."


"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."


"Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right."


"I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk."


"I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun."


"These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths."


"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."


"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing."


"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."


"Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe."


"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."


"No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship."


"We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it."


"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."


"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."


"I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with."


"I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab."


"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship."


"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."


"Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane."


"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."


"When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many."


"Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our 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."


"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."


"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."


"My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director."


"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."


"All lasting business is built on friendship."


"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."


"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.'"


"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."


"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration."


"I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing."


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


"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."


"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."


"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."



"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ."
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