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Friendship Quotes


"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."


"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."


"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."


"It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!"


"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."


"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."


"We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do."


"I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends."


"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."


"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."


"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."


"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."


"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."


"Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training."


"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."


"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country."


"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."


"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."


"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."


"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."


"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."


"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."


"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."


"The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution."


"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."


"I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall."


"When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school."


"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."


"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."


"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."


"Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh."


"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."


"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."


"A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part."


"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."


"In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away."


"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."


"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."


"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."


"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"


"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."


"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."


"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."


"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."


"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."


"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"


"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."



"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
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