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Quotes About Friendship

Wise are thy words, my friend, responded the buyer. Good luck fled from procrastination in both these tales. Yet, this is not unusual. The spirit of procrastination is within all men. We desire riches; yet, how often when opportunity doth appear before us, that spirit of procrastination from within doth urge various delays in our acceptance. In listening to it we do become our own worst enemies.
~ George S. Clason
If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
~ George S. Clason
If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring they friend's burdens upon thyself.
~ George Samuel Clason
In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness, confidence, and friendship, and so to remind men, hardened or discouraged, that pure morals, tender sentiments, and primitive justice still exist, or at least can exist, in this world.
~ George Sand
I don't know why, but any thought of the future upsets me intolerably. So I had to turn and look back at certain aspects of the past, and only then did I recover my calm. I thought of our friendship and was overcome by guilt at having allowed so much bitterness to invade my wretched heart. I recalled the joys and sorrows we had shared. Both are so dear to me that I began to sob like a woman when I remembered them.
~ George Sand
can the title of Donna Bustamente make me any happier?" "It would put you out of reach of the insolent disdain of society." "Society!" said Juliette; "you mean your friends. What is society? I have never known. I have passed through life and made the tour of the globe, but have never been able to discover what you call society.
~ George Sand
I have plenty of friends, she says. Name one. She looks at me. Which I guess is sort of sweet.
~ George Saunders
What I'm putting forth, he said, is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old mind-sets about monogamy. The world's gone crazy. Let's do the same. The answer is no, Dad said. And I'm surprised I'm not punching you.
~ George Saunders
On Final Twist , five college friends take a sixth to an expensive Italian restaurant, supposedly to introduce him to a hot girl, actually to break the news that his mother is dead. This is the InitialTwist. During dessert they are told that, in fact, all of their mothers are dead. This is the SecondTwist. The ThirdTwist is, not only are all their mothers dead, the show paid to have them killed, and the fourth and FinalTwist is, the kids have just eaten their own grilled mothers.
~ George Saunders
What do my colleagues know of Dad? What do they know of me? What kind of friend gets a kick out of posting in the break room a drawing of you eating an entire computer? What kind of friend jokes that someday you'll be buried in a specially built container after succumbing to heart strain? I'm sorry but I feel that life should offer more than this.
~ George Saunders
And off they went, emitting a perfect major triad via fart-noises with their mouths
~ George Saunders
When confronted with some little unfairness, his face would darken with concern, and his eyes well up with tears, as if, in that unfortunate particular, he had intuited the injustice of the larger enterprise. Once a playmate brought along a dead robin he had just killed with a stone, held tong-like between two sticks. Willie spoke brusquely to the boy, seized the bird away, took it off to bury it, was low and quiet for the rest of the day.
~ George Saunders
You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as being the first Fox I ever spoke Yuman to, troting up beside you.
~ George Saunders
Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on your flank. Even when he goes bak to being nise, you will never feel exact lee safe. And meenwile your other frends, who did not get nipped, are troting arownd with hapy smiles, going: Fox 8, why so glum?
~ George Saunders
and don't take no shit from nobody, unless taking shit from them is part of your master plan to get the best of them by tricking them into being your friend.
~ George Saunders
La amistad puede definirse como el acto gratuito, pero profundamente significativo, de quienes están «en libertad».
~ George Steiner
Amigo! Amigo! (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister....)
~ George W. Bush
I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark]
~ George W. Bush
It was a good reminder that Congressmen from opposite parties could put their differences aside and enjoy each other's company.
~ George W. Bush
My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: "Bush, what did you do wrong?
~ George W. Bush
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
~ George Washington
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
~ George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
~ George Washington
Its good to live alone than to live in a bad company
~ George Washington