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Friendship Quotes


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


"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."


"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."


"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."


"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."


"Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy."


"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."


"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend."


"Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod."


"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."


"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."


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


"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."


"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"


"Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."


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


"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."


"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."


"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."


"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."


"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."


"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."


"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."


"Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes."


"All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs."


"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy."


"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing."


"One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends."


"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."


"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."


"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends."



"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."


"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."


"A friend is, as it were, a second self."


"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."


"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."


"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."


"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."


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


"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has."


"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."


"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
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