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There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

They love least that let men know their loves.

They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.