Quotes about friend

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“Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…”

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

“It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.”

“Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….”

“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”

“When we're all alone, it might be to frightening to bear… but we're all right beside each other. We've got our friends close by! Now, there's nothing to fear! Because we're not alone!!!”

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”

“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”

“i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.”

“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“Relationships are incredibly amorphous. They could get back together. They could stay friends. Who's to say what will happen in the future?”

“I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.”

“[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.”

“When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.”

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

“You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. […] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.”

“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie”

“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”

“That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier. And clearly you British have an advantage. You were crazy beforehand.”

“Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”

“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”

“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”

“Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”

“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”

“We can do anything. It’s not because
our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we
struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring
your friends. It’s a potluck, I’m making pork chops, I’m making
those long noodles you love so much.”

“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.”

“Friends share all things.”

“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”

“Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.”

“My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.”

“This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.”

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

“What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.”

“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.”

“It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.”

“It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.”

“As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.””

“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”

“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”

“And it seemed to me that there were fires
Flying till dawn without number
And I never found out things-those
Strange eyes of his-what colour?

Everything trembling and singing and
Were you my enemy or my friend,
Winter was it or summer?”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on”

“My shadow serves as the friend I crave.”

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

“Diamonds are a girl's best friend.”

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.”

“Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.”

“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”

“Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.”

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”

“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”

“I'm Magnus." He smiled, showing blinding white teeth.
"Magnus Bane."
"Are we long-lost friends, by any chance?" Simon said.
"Just wondering."
"No, we never got along all that well," said Magnus.
"Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you.”

“Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.”

“My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.”

“And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.”

“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”

“And thus we all are nighing
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go.”

“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”

“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually… we tell them to ourselves.”

“She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.”

“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”

“Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”

“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

“The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.”

“I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food.
If you are frightened
I am your friend.
I love you now.
And love does not end.”

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”

“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”

“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.”

“She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.”

“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”

“He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.”

“…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.”

“Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right."

—The law of Badger Lords”

“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

“My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.”

“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

“My friend died. (Astrid)
Died how? (Zarek)
Mmm, he had parvo. (Astrid)
Isn’t that a dog’s disease? (Zarek)
Yes. It was tragic. (Astrid)
Hey! I resent that. (Sasha)
Behave or I will give you parvo. (Astrid)”

“If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.”

“On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”

“OR am I the only warlock you know?"
"No… but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.”

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

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

“You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.”

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”

““I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”

“your lives be as full and happy as ours, and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.”

“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”

“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”