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Friendship Quotes
"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."
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"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right."
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
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"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."
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"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ."
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"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."
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"Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?"
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"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."
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"If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral."
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"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."
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"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."
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"When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way."
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"Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends-maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be."
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"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
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"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
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"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
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"Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk."
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"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."
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"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."
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"I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective."
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"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."
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"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
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"I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways."
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
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"The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it."
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"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
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"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."
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"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."
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"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."
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"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
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"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
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"But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false."
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
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"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him."
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"Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what."
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"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."
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"I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not."
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"And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short."
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"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
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