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Friendship Quotes


"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."


"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."


"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing."


"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."


"Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that."


"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."


"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."


"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."


"You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit."


"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."


"You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not."


"I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing."


"As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that."


"One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy."


"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."


"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention."


"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."


"I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally."


"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."


"I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it."



"The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be."


"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."


"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."


"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."


"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."


"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."


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


"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"


"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part."


"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."


"Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem."


"We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live."


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


"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."


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


"If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend."


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


"You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net."


"The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them."


"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."


"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."


"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."


"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
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