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Friendship Quotes


"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."


"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."


"I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice."


"The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that."



"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."


"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."


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


"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."



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



"I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation."


"What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom."


"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."


"The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within our soul. They are the greatest gifts, of all."


"People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others."



"When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me."



"Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word."



"We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp."


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


"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."


"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."


"Honest friends is kinda nice, but it's hard to beat a big-ass lie and a six-pack of brewskies."


"If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend."



"Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament."


"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be."


"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."



"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.'"


"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."


"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?"


"I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem."


"Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!"


"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."


"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."


"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."


"To your friends house the trip is never long."


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


"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."


"There's no better mirror than a friend's eye."


"Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake."


"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."


"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."


"She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything."


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


"There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend."


"North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place."


"He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend."


"Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again."


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


"For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!"
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