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Quotes About Friendship

So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind. Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)
~ Ally Carter
Seriously, Macey snapped. go. Kiss. A baby can you believe her? Preston asked, coking his head towards macey. everytime she sees me, all she does is call me baby and talk about kissing. Macey looked like she wanted to kill him. But I kind of wanted to laugh.
~ Ally Carter
At Sanford's 1998 funeral in Duke Chapel, childhood friend Dickson Philips eulogized this Eagle from Troop 20 in the town of Laurinburg. To the assembled crowd, he eloquently said, "[Terry Sanford] took an oath when he was twelve years old and kept it. It started out, 'On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country,' and included such things as 'help other people at all times.' He believed it: He was the eternal Boy Scout.
~ Alvin Townley
Troop 75 of Ridgefield
~ Alvin Townley
Troop 75 of Ridgefield, Connecticut.
~ Alvin Townley
Whitney sipped, still not looking up from her phone. "Mmm, perfect," she said. Whitney loved being cared for, and she did look after me as well. If sometimes it felt as if she treated me like staff, I could live with that. Wasn't I using her, too, in my own way? Would I still love her if she were poor, or less influential, less glamorous? I liked to think I would, but I couldn't know for sure.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived.
~ Amanda Grange
Of all the evenings it is possible to spend, a companionable evening with friends is the best.
~ Amanda Grange
Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
~ Ambrose Bierce
acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ALONE, adj. In bad company.
~ Ambrose Bierce
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle
~ Ambrose Bierce
Conocido, s. Persona a quien conocemos lo bastante para pedirle dinero prestado, pero no lo suficiente para prestarle. Grado de amistad que llamamos superficial cuando su objeto es pobre y oscuro, e íntimo cuando es rico y famoso.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Musgrave and Lawley were alone with the dead body of their friend, whose masquerading dress had become his shroud.
~ Amelia B. Edwards
If there ever was a place where one could start again, it was Manhattan. Move a block, and your enemies become your friends. Move ten blocks and you might never see anyone you knew again.
~ Ami McKay
We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.
~ Aminatta Forna
I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider's web.
~ Aminatta Forna
friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already, they scramble eagerly for the position of likable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and hence be everyone's friend,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Give me only evil men for friends, Verturio wrote. Them I understand.
~ Joe Abercrombie
To be brave among friends was nothing. To have the world against you and pick your path regardless–there is courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.
~ Joe Abercrombie