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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.
I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
There is no friendship in trade.
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
Your friends love you anyway.
In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.
Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.
While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.
In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
