Friend Quotes

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

Mac Miller

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1. My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

   Neil LaBute

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2. I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

   Miroslav Vitous

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3. It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

   Cleveland Abbe

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4. I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

   Suge Knight

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5. Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

   Kevin Bacon

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6. 'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

   Michael Irvin

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7. This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

   James Stockdale

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8. It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

   James Bovard

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9. I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

   Jackson Browne

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1. A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

   Erma Bombeck

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2. I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

   Cheryl Ladd

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3. I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

   Shaun White

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4. I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

   Emo Philips

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5. My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

   Karen Duffy

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6. What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

   Scott Hamilton

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7. It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

   Stockard Channing

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8. I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

   Prince

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1. A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye.

   Anonymous

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2. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you!

   Aristotle

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3. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

   Robert Brault

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4. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

   Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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5. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

   Charles Caleb Colton

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6. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

   Thomas Aquinas

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7. I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

   Miley Cyrus

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8. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

   Charles Kingsley

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9. When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

   Peter Bergman

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10. True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

    Baltasar Gracian

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11. This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

    Jackie Weaver

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12. I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

    Kelly Osbourne

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13. The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

    Larry Flynt

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14. Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

    Jim Morrison

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15. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

    Doug Larson

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16. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

    E. B. White

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

    Harvey Milk

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18. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

    Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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19. To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

    Bill Vaughan

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20. My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

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More true quotes or go to table of contents

1. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

   Abraham Lincoln

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2. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

   Joseph Addison

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3. People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

   Jim Morrison

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4. If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

   Joseph Smith, Jr.

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5. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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6. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

   Thomas Jefferson

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7. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

   Barbara Bush

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8. At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

   Woodrow Wilson

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9. Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

   Jean Reno

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10. Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

    America Ferrera

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11. Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

    Henry R. Luce

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12. All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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13. 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.

    James Russell Lowell

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14. That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

    Aphra Behn

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15. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

    Melody Beattie

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16. Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

    Thomas S. Monson

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17. I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

    Chavela Vargas

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18. True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

    Baltasar Gracian

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19. Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.

    Orrin Hatch

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20. This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

    Jackie Weaver

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More life quotes or go to table of contents

1. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

   Euripides

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2. A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye.

   Anonymous

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3. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

   Elbert Hubbard

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4. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

   Marcel Proust

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5. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

   Abraham Lincoln

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6. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you!

   Aristotle

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7. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

   Hubert Humphrey

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8. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

   Oscar Wilde

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9. Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

   Proverbs

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10. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

    Helen Keller

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11. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

    Plutarch

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12. Friendship needs no words...

    Dag Hammarskjold

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13. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

    Rumi

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14. Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

    Robert Greene

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15. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

    John D. Rockefeller

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16. Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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17. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

    George Washington

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18. A friend to all is a friend to none.

    Aristotle

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19. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

    Marlene Dietrich

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More friendship quotes or go to table of contents

1. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

   Euripides

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2. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

   Elbert Hubbard

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3. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

   Hubert Humphrey

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4. Give generously, love warmly, act with integrity, and the world will be your friend

   Susan McCann

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5. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

   Rumi

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

   Richard Bach

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7. You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

   J. K. Rowling

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8. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

   Martin Luther King, Jr.

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9. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

   Robert Louis Stevenson

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10. If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

    Yunus Emre

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11. I have the iPad and I love Words With Friends.

    Billy Bush

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12. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

    Anais Nin

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13. I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

    Frances Farmer

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14. He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem Outwitted

    Edwin Markham

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15. Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

    Lord Byron

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16. I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

    Giuliana Rancic

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17. I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

    Sean Astin

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18. I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

    Nicole Richie

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19. The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

    Larry Flynt

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20. Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

    Jim Morrison

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1. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you!

   Aristotle

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2. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

   Plutarch

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3. Without friends no one would choose to live.

   Aristotle

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4. The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

   Friedrich Nietzsche

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5. A friend to all is a friend to none.

   Aristotle

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6. The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

   Francis Bacon

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7. Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

   Aristotle

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8. 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.

   Albert Camus

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9. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

   Aristotle

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10. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

    Aristotle

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11. Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

    Lao Tzu

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12. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

    Aristotle

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13. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

    Aristotle

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14. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

    Socrates

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15. To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

    Aristotle

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16. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

    Jean De La Bruyere

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17. Have no friends not equal to yourself.

    Confucius

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

    Epicurus

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19. Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

    Baltasar Gracian

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20. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

    Baltasar Gracian

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

   Groucho Marx

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2. A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

   Josh Billings

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3. My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

   Steven Wright

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4. I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

   Steven Wright

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5. Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

   Joe E. Lewis

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6. My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

   Rodney Dangerfield

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7. Times are hard and friends are few.

   Paul O'Grady

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8. When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

   Steve Coogan

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9. My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

   Garry Shandling

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

    Groucho Marx

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11. As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

    Hugh Laurie

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12. When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

    Demetri Martin

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13. My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

    Ed Helms

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14. I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

    Tina Fey

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15. Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

    Arthur Guiterman

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16. I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

    Emo Philips

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17. Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

    Alan King

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18. One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

    Jack Dee

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19. 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.

    Simon Pegg

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20. A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

    Kate Clinton

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

   Marlene Dietrich

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2. You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

   Elizabeth Taylor

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3. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

   Shirley Maclaine

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4. Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

   Judy Holliday

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5. The best time to make friends is before you need them.

   Ethel Barrymore

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6. I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

   Billie Piper

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7. I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.

   Leighton Meester

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8. Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

   Vanessa Hudgens

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9. Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

   America Ferrera

   • 1

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10. The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

    Julianna Margulies

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11. I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

    Frances Farmer

    • 1

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12. A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

    Hedy Lamarr

    • 1

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13. We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

    Sophia Bush

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14. My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

    Katherine Moennig

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15. I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

    Blake Lively

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16. I have no friends and I never leave my house.

    Megan Fox

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17. I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

    Amanda Peet

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18. This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

    Jackie Weaver

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19. Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

    Jennifer Aniston

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20. I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

    Julie Walters

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1. You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

   Tom Petty

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2. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

   Taylor Swift

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3. Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

   John Evelyn

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4. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

   Jim Morrison

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5. A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

   Kurt Cobain

   • 5

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6. No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

   Julian Casablancas

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7. People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

   Jim Morrison

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8. I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

   Miley Cyrus

   • 3

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9. Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

   Axl Rose

   • 3

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10. I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

    Victoria Beckham

    • 3

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11. Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

    Obie Trice

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12. My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

    Taylor Swift

    • 2

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13. Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

    Namie Amuro

    • 2

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14. I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

    Les Paul

    • 1

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15. It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

    Jay-Z

    • 1

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16. My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

    Frank Iero

    • 1

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17. Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

    Aaron Carter

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18. Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

    Paula Abdul

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19. A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

    Charlie Daniels

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20. From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

    John Fahey

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1. In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

   Brigham Young

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2. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

   Martin Luther King, Jr.

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3. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

   William Penn

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

   William Penn

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5. Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

   Dalai Lama

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6. It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

   Saskya Pandita

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7. It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

   Margaret Thatcher

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8. There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

   William Penn

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9. There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

   Paramahansa Yogananda

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10. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

    Mother Teresa

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11. 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.

    Black Kettle

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12. My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

    Black Elk

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13. We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

    Chief Joseph

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14. Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

    Dalai Lama

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15. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

    Dalai Lama

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1. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

   Marcel Proust

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2. However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

   Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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3. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

   Jean De La Fontaine

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4. 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.

   Albert Camus

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5. May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

   Voltaire

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6. Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

   Francois FeNelon

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7. My friends, there are no friends.

   Coco Chanel

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8. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

   Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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9. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

   Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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10. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

    Jean De La Bruyere

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11. My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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12. He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

    Joseph Joubert

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13. The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

    Jean De La Bruyere

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14. Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

    Montesquieu

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15. The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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16. And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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17. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

    Jean De La Fontaine

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18. I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

    Moliere

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19. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

    Honore de Balzac

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20. Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

    Jean Reno

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1. Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

   Marcus Tullius Cicero

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2. Life is nothing without friendship.

   Marcus Tullius Cicero

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3. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

   Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

   Marcus Tullius Cicero

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5. Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

   Plautus

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6. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

   Plautus

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7. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

   Ovid

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8. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

   Marcus Tullius Cicero

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9. Ones oldest friend is the best.

   Plautus

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10. Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

    Terence

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11. Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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12. Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

    Marcus Annaeus Seneca Seneca The Elder

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13. Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

    Plautus

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14. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

    Plautus

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15. I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

    Saint Augustine

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16. What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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17. Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

    Sallust

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19. Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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20. There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

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1. The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

   Madame Swetchine

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2. How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

   Madame Swetchine

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3. 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.

   Sophie Swetchine

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4. Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

   Maxim Gorky

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5. I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

   Maria Sharapova

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6. The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

   Natan Sharansky

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7. I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

   Ekaterina Gordeeva

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8. Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

   Vladimir Putin

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1. Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

   Proverbs

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2. Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

   Proverbs

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3. Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

   Proverbs

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4. A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

   Proverbs

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5. To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

   Proverbs

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6. For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

   Proverbs

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7. It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

   Proverbs

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8. Short judgments make long friends.

   Proverbs

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9. Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

   Proverbs

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10. The time to make friends is before you need them.

    Proverbs

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11. Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

    Proverbs

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12. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

    Proverbs

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13. These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

    Proverbs

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14. An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

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1. I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

   Thomas Jefferson

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2. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

   Thomas Jefferson

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3. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

   Thomas Jefferson

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4. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

   Thomas Jefferson

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5. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

   Thomas Jefferson

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6. An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

   Thomas Jefferson

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1. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

   Kahlil Gibran

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2. Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

   Kahlil Gibran

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3. Your friend is your needs answered.

   Kahlil Gibran

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4. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

   Kahlil Gibran

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5. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

   Kahlil Gibran

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6. No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

   Kahlil Gibran

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1. Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. Proverbs 18:24

   Bible

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2. A friend loveth at all times. Proverbs 17:17

   Bible

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3. A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. Proverbs 27:19

   Bible

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4. A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

   Bible

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5. Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

   Bible

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6. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

   Bible

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1. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

   Abraham Lincoln

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2. I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

   Abraham Lincoln

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3. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

   Abraham Lincoln

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4. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

   Abraham Lincoln

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5. Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

   Abraham Lincoln

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6. I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

   Abraham Lincoln

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7. A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

   Abraham Lincoln

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8. I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

   Abraham Lincoln

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9. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

   Abraham Lincoln

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10. Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

    Abraham Lincoln

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