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Friendship Quotes
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius |
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius |
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar Chavez |
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin |
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Associate Yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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True Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali |
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James |
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A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
Dave Matthews |
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A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes |
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes |
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Emily Bronte |
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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Ani Difranco |
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You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Robert De Niro |
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke |
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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams |
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams |
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall |
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
J. August Strindberg |
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
Adriana Lima |
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
Garry Shandling |
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I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster |
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He's my friend. He's my brother.
Ja Rule |
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Ed Howe |
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Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
Layne Staley |
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It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
Layne Staley |
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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
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I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
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Where the touch of the lover ends. And the soul of the friend begins.
There's a need to be separate and a need to be one. And a struggle neither wins.
Jackson Browne |
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
Jackson Browne |
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell |
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We must take our friends as they are.
James Boswell |
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There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Elliott Smith |
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
Axl Rose |
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I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
Faith Hill |
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello |
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone |
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush |
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson |
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens |
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You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.
Jesse Owens |
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We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
Mark Hoppus |
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka |
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
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I really never had any ambitions to be a stand up comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore |
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
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It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
Brad Paisley |
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
Tom Cruise |
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For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
John Frusciante |
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I made some good friends there. It was a wonderful place. You never missed home when you were there. I was having a good time, and people were awfully good to me.
Mort Sahl |
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John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend |
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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.
Truman Capote |
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however , can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul |
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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