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Friendship Quotes
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
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"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us."
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"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."
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"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends."
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
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"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
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"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
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"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
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"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
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"Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless."
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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
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"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?"
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
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"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
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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."
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"Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction."
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"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
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"I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures."
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
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"History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all."
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"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
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"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
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"We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye."
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"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
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"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."
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"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."
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"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."
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"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."
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"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"
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"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
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"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."
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"I usually only play with very close friends."
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"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
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"By being friends with all, we are not alone."
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"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
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"When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row."
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"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."
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"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"
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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."
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