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Friendship Quotes


"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"


"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."


"You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend."


"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental."



"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."


"I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars."


"I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will."


"I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends."


"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."


"I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him."


"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."


"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself."


"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."


"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."


"He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans."


"It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting."


"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."


"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."


"Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk."


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


"Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there."


"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."


"Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him."


"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days."


"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."


"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book."


"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances."


"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."


"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."


"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."


"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."


"I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important."


"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."


"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."


"My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them."


"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."


"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."


"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."


"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."


"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."


"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."
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