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Friendship Quotes
"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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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."
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"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
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"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
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"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us."
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"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
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"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."
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"But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends."
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"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
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"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
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"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
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"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms."
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"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
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"Even the strongest man needs friends."
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"I usually only play with very close friends."
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"I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?"
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
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"I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be."
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"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me."
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
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"I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."
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"If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want."
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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
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"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
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"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
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"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
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"Where there are friends there is wealth."
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"We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do."
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"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
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"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."
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"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
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"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."
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"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."
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"History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all."
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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!"
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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
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"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
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"We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks."
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