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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you."


"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."



"Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes."


"This is Annabeth, Jason said. "Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people."


"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."


"Each blooming flower breathe an open soul of nature's gratitude. Every blooming friendship is an opening of both heart and mind to touch a unique growth of one's soul. Jolly good friends make you bloom with joy even on a coldest winter as you share your common interests in life, in work, in art, with people and of your passion. Treasure your true friends and feel blessed in your life to have them."


"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."


"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."


"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."


"Before one day, which will mean the day before today, I just played chess with a friend the strategies were incrediable the moves which I made were wise and I win the two games... This happens in other games also, however today I and two my friends we played football it ended 7 for me and my friend and for the other fried 5-6 somewhere there... We just played football!"


"Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production."


"To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time."


"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."


"I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends."


"I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years."


"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."


"My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism."


"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."


"I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today."


"Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial."


"I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me."


"You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them."


"You don't know many friends you have till you buy a big-ass house on the beach."


"Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name."


"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."



"Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I."


"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."


"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."


"I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'"


"In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?"


"I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one."


"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."


"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."


"The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must."


"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime."


"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."


"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."


"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."


"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."


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



"The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends."


"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."


"Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him."


"I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization."


"I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet."


"He loved books, books are cold but safe friends."


"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."
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