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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"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."


"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."


"My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things."


"We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road."


"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."



"I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all."


"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."


"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."


"If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay."


"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."


"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."


"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."


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


"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."


"Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war."



"We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat."



"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."


"My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed."


"I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends."


"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins."


"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."


"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."


"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar."


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


"The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors."


"He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, since accomplices are potential enemies: she was some one with whom, by some unheard-of miracle, joys above the joys of friendship were to be tasted, but who, even through these fleeting ecstasies, remained simply and securely his friend."


"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."


"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."


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


"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his."


"Breezy daysdeserve the unionof two old friends."


"Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II."


"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship."


"To God, thy country, and thy friend be true."


"I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow."


"I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next."


"I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head."


"To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow."


"While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp.'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.''That's your only comment?' Piper demanded.He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--''I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.''That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.''Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said.Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys."


"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."


"I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years."
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