Friendship quotes
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"Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one."
"What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship."
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."
"I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found."
"We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship."
"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."
"I recommend that you try a little mental floss."
"Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!"
"I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over."
"Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?"
"There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul."
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
"Little friends may prove great friends."
"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
"Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion."
"Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them."
"The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war."
"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't."
"I don't trust him. We're friends."
