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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."


"In order to have friends, you must first be one."


"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."


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


"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."


"To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat."


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


"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."


"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."


"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."


"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."


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


"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."


"I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends."


"Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing."


"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."


"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."


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


"Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men."


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


"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."


"Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction."


"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."


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



"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives."


"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."


"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."


"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses."


"My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them."


"Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others."


"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."


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


"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."


"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."


"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."


"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."


"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."


"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."


"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."


"If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying."
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