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Friendship Quotes


"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."


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


"In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide."


"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."


"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."


"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."


"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."


"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."


"A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints."


"I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends."


"I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you."


"I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States."


"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."


"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."


"Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great."


"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."


"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life."


"But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac."


"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."


"Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production."


"Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song."


"I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools."


"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."



"When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me."


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


"If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it."


"Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful."


"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."


"My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends."


"People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold."


"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."


"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy."


"A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive."


"The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit."


"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it."


"At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips."


"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."


"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."


"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."


"I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been."


"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."


"You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone."


"I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry."


"I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse."


"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
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