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Friendship Quotes


"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."


"I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect."


"Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies."


"Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want another."


"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."


"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."


"I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly."


"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"


"Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.''Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again."


"If you're truly friends, then you don't just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, "It's all yours-please keep it beating."


"Be sure to know who your true friends are, because some of the people that you call friends are actually worse than the enemies that you know."


"A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair."


"Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, soothing breath. Only Sumire could do that for me."


"Friendship is never measured it words, it's measured in memories."


"The people in my circle? Those who make me feel blessed, not stressed."


"So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."


"Friendship is not just about having fun, it's about supporting each other in time of weakness."


"A smile is a friend maker."


"Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul."


"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."


"Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence."


"That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both."


"Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens."


"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."


"But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write."


"Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts."


"True friendship is th treasure of forgiveness."


"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."


"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"


"Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?"


"Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends."


"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy."


"A loyal pet is better than a faithless friend."


"Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public."


"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."


"There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down" they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are!"


"I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance."


"Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend."


"There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here."


"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."


"Friendship is based on trust and treating others kindly."


"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."


"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."


"Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?"


"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."



"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."
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