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Friendship Quotes


"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."


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


"As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like."


"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."


"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."


"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."


"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."


"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."


"I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships."


"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."


"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!"


"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."


"Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship."


"I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."


"He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together."


"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving."


"The best friend you will ever find is you. Love yourself with joy and fill your heart with bliss and happiness."


"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."


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


"Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed."


"The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world."


"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."


"I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself."


"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."


"I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest."


"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."


"I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend."


"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."


"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."


"We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely."


"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."


"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."


"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion."


"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"


"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples."


"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."


"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."


"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."


"Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"


"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine."


"They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors."


"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."


"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband."


"As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that."


"As friends go it is less important to live."


"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion."



"I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends."
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