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Quotes About Friendship

To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Frieda was very special," O'Keeffe recalls. "I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she'd just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Roger and I would squat in the sweet-scented myrtles and lay bets with each other as to whether or not, on this particular morning, George was going to fight an olive tree.
~ Gerald Durrell
dropped in on my old shepherd friend Yani who provided us with some bread and fig cake and a straw hat full of wild strawberries to sustain us.
~ Gerald Durrell
Roger and I would make our way down through the breathless olive groves, vibrating with the cries of the cicadas, and pad our way along the dusty road, Roger sneezing voluptuously as his great paws stirred up the dust, which went up his nose like snuff.
~ Gerald Durrell
I must say that I was very glad when Juanita got better, not only because I did not want to lose her, but also because it is very exhausting to sleep with a playful peccary in your bed.
~ Gerald Durrell
Olvidándome de mi inminente peligro de ser educado, salí con Roger a cazar luciérnagas por entre las abundantes zarzas
~ Gerald Durrell
and their cats.
~ Gerald Hawksley
I should show you to Robin," Terence murmured. Then he closed his eyes.
~ Gerald Morris
Ay, you've already seen that you and your master aren't quite at home in this world, at least not like before.' Terence nodded slowly. 'It'll only get stronger, too,' Robin continued. 'Soon you'll find yourself looking into people's eyes to see if they've been there. And once you find someone who has, you'll greet him as a long-lost friend and take him to your heart.
~ Gerald Morris
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
~ William Shakespeare
If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.
~ Albanian Proverb
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~ John F. Kennedy
Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.
~ Sharon Riis
Joys divided are increased.
~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.
~ Lila Green
Birds of a feather flock together.
~ English proverb
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Merry have we met, and merry have we been; Merry let us part, and merry meet again; With our merry sing-song, happy gay, and free, With a merry ding-dong, happy let us be!
~ Old English Rhyme
Misery loves company.
~ English proverb