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Friendship Quotes


"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."


"It's best to have a small boat of friends where everyone rows than an ark of friends where no one does. At least you're getting somewhere."


"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."



"To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House."


"Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore."


"I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for."



"I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends."


"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."


"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."


"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."


"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."


"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."


"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair."


"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."


"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."


"I learned a lot. Friendship and kinship matter more than adventure. Boundaries only exist in our minds. A heart can travel to the horizon without moving a paw step. And I made the best friend any cat ever had."


"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."


"I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!"


"And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn."



"No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart ."


"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."


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


"Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children."


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



"And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years."


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


"One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy."


"Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too."


"But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined."


"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."


"We became good friends with Galactic as well."


"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."


"It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious."


"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."



"I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple."


"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself."


"I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend."


"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."


"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."


"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."



"There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends."


"At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know."


"I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent."


"I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from."


"Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%."


"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."


"Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what."


"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."


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