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Friendship Quotes


"Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus."


"In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends."


"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend."


"Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers."


"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."


"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."


"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm."


"Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."


"The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market."


"I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example."


"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."


"I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night."


"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."


"It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations."


"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"


"Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed."


"When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend."


"Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see."


"Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend."


"Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers."


"I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting."


"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."


"Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?"


"Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that."


"One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today."


"When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way."


"I won't take advantage of you. Today, I'll be your friend.""Fen has been my friend for decades," she said, sliding her arm into his when he offered it to her. "And he never presumed to put his mouth on mine.""Obviously I'll be a different kind of friend."


"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends."


"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."


"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."


"Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend."


"Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now."


"I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not."


"To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat."


"A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good."


"One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson."


"Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is."


"In a dog's world,would we be his best friend?"


"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."


"And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative."


"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."


"'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me."


"Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need. Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you."


"With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend."


"Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line."
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