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Friendship Quotes


"Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."


"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion."


"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'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."


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


"No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship."


"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."


"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."


"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."


"When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there."


"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"


"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."


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


"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."


"We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other."


"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."


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


"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."


"Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that."


"The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll."


"At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know."


"Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you."


"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."


"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."


"What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."


"It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend."


"Everybody needs one essential friend."


"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."


"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."


"I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot."


"I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more."


"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."


"Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events."


"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."


"What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom."


"Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person."
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