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Friendship Quotes


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


"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."


"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."


"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."


"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have."


"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."


"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."


"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."


"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."


"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'"


"Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record."


"I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it."


"I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate."


"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."


"You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not."


"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."


"As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy."


"Be with people who like you for who you are, not what you have."


"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."


"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"


"I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans."


"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."


"I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more."


"Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."


"I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them."


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


"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."


"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't."


"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."


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


"In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life."


"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."


"Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?"


"There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends."


"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."


"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."


"I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls."


"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."


"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."



"How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing."


"A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen."


"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."


"And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short."


"With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end."
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