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Friendship Quotes



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


"My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show."


"A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was."


"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."


"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey."


"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."


"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."


"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people."


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


"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."


"In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends."


"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."


"My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride."


"I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible."


"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."


"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."


"I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points."


"I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too."


"I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends."


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


"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."


"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."


"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."


"It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like."


"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."


"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."


"My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie."


"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."


"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."


"The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself."


"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."


"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."


"I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married."


"I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends."


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


"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."


"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."


"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."


"Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake."


"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."


"What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom."


"I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends."


"Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult."


"I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me."


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


"I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die."


"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"
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