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Friendship Quotes


"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book."


"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."


"Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton."



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


"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."


"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."


"He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses."


"The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality."


"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."


"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."


"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."


"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."


"I always wanted to eat with a Negro, Grandma said.Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney-assed old white woman, Lula said. 'So I guess this works out good."


"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."


"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."


"The only way to have a friend is to be one."



"You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one."


"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."


"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."


"Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends."


"True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over."



"But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood."


"Expose Yourself to True Friendship for It Heals, encourages and lifts you higher."



"The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess."


"I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male."


"Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it."



"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."


"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."


"I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving."


"Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario."


"Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name."



"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."



"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"


"Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends."


"I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see."


"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."



"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys."


"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."


"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."


"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."


"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."


"When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts."


"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."


"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community."


"With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about."


"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."


"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."
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