3,061 Quotes About Friends

  • Author Helen Hunt Jackson
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    The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought.

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  • Author Lyndon B. Johnson
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    A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

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  • Author D. H. Lawrence
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    In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

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  • Author Fran Lebowitz
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    It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

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