Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

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Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
J.R.R. TOLKIEN They say true friends come and go, but true friends last forever. The problem is that i don't know w...
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ANUJ SOMANY

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MEG CABOT

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul
CHAIM POTOK

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
KONRAD LORENZ

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything an...
HARBHAJAN SINGH

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT

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ARTHUR C. CLARKE

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SHAH RUKH KHAN

There are no true friends in politics.
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FRIENDS [after settling a fight between Monica and Rachel] Phoebe: Hey, if we were in prison, you guys would...
FRIENDS [Ross is walking down the aisle at Chandler and Monica's wedding] Ross: Wow. This is the first time ...
FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik]
Chandler: Suddenly I don't have the worst costume an...
FRIENDS It's bizarre, it's like a dream that we haven't woken up from. We tried to go through every possible...
FRIENDS Phoebe : They don't know that we know they know we know.
FRIENDS Joey to Ross:Well, if you can’t talk dirty to me, how you gonna talk dirty to her? Now, tell me yo...
FRIENDS Chandler to Joey:Yes, on a scale from one to ten, ten being the dumbest a person can look, you are d...
FRIENDS Joey enters wearing an elf costume. Chandler is in agony] Chandler: Too many jokes. Must mock Joey.
FRIENDS Pheobe: "I'm late for...uhhh...my Green Eggs and Ham discussion group. Tonight is why he would not e...
FRIENDS She was a promiscuous lady in her younger days.
FRIENDS [Joey is making marinara sauce and filling every container possible with it. Chandler enters] Chandl...
FRIENDS Chandler [In response to a stupid comment]: You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance.
FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik] Chandler: Suddenly I don't have the worst costume anymore...
FRIENDS There's definitely an element of fatal attraction here. I think that's great; that's a compliment,
FRIENDS They eliminated 82 percent of what they originally proposed for critical habitat,
FRIENDS The Edge Of Texas.
FRIENDS Mark Twain.
FRIENDS ...Because it is too damn hard, I can't even begin to explain to you how much I gonna miss you. When...
FRIENDS [Chandler walks in] Joey: You know, with that goatee, you kinda look like Satan.
FRIENDS I can't believe it. I mean, I think it's great. For him, she might be able to do better.
FRIENDS [Reading Rachel's romance novel.] Monica: 'Throbbing pens? Don't wanna be around when he writes with...
FRIENDS [Ross coming back from bathroom, getting ready to play poker with Rachel] Ross: Your money is mine, ...
FRIENDS Mr Heckles: quiet, your disturbing my birds!Rachel: you dont have birdsMr Heckles: i could have bird...
FRIENDS [to Ross] Chandler: You know if your not careful, you could not get married at all this year.
FRIENDS I just feel lucky to be able to do things other than that character, you know, other than Rachel (he...
FRIENDS Ross: First divorce: wife's hidden sexuality, not my fault. Second divorce: said the wrong name at t...
FRIENDS Chandler: Ding dong, the psycho's gone.
FRIENDS Chandler: I'm not so good with the advice... Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?
FRIENDS [to Ross]
Chandler: You know if your not careful, you could not get married at all this year.
FRIENDS Joey : Pheebs, you wanna help?
Phoebe : Oh, I wish I could, but I really don't want to.
FRIENDS Chandler: Ew, ew, ew, ew ew ew ew ew. Ugly Naked Guy got a Thighmaster.
FRIENDS Rachel: Oh my God. I've become my father. I've been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn't...
FRIENDS Joey: But I-I-I can't stay too long, I gotta get up early for a commercial audition tomorrow and I g...
FRIENDS [Ross is trying to cheer Chandler up who won't get out of his sweatpants]
Ross: C'mon man, just...
FRIENDS You remembered your friends but what you didn't know was that "friends" are just as close as enemies
JUSTIN JONES True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.
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CODY GOLOUBEF This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I have lots of friends and my true friends are family.
MARIE MUHAMMAD There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combin...
DIANE DI PRIMA

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
CHARLES DICKENS There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on ...
JACOB NORDBY

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ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Enemies disguise as friends and friends as enemies.
SOMAN CHAINANI It's basically a transaction between two old friends.
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN

Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. B...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

It felt like there is a dialogue between these two movies and these two women. They could be friends...
PENELOPE CRUZ

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are t...
JENNIFER WILSON

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JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT

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SIMONE WEIL

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us,...
ALBERT CAMUS

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.
MANDY HALE

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as grea...
C.S. LEWIS

True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves, scattered e...
UNKNOWN

A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
SANTOSH KALWAR

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't the...
DEYTH BANGER

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.
AMAN JASSAL I have seen a land shining with goodness, where each man protects his brother's dignity as readily a...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
CRISS JAMI But I was determined not to make it bigger and broader for Broadway, and Stephen was just as adamant...
JOHN DOYLE

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek ...
ROBERT VAUGHN

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
GEORGE A. ROMERO

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as t...
HORACE Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens i...
MICHEAL RIVERS

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them agai...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them agai...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We must never allow them to be forgotten, as our true friends are the reason for us being what we ac...
PEX PARKER It's known that a night is sweet when there are many stars and moon, but it's also known that they c...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES

He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
FRENCH PROVERB Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.
GIOVANNI GIOLITTI

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RON WHITE

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes a...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
STEPHEN RICHARDS True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
EDNA BUCHANAN I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
IAN SOMERHALDER We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.
MARC OTTE Conversations between friends are the craziest and funniest of all.
MOHITH AGADI You have friends and you have enemies, the trick is mastering that the only difference between the t...
KEYSHA JADE

You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no...
JEFFREY MICHAEL I was raised with my mother saying over and over again to me, “If your friends jumped off the Broo...
DEBORAH SIMPSON Friends will be there, real Friends are there
DAKOTA FULLER

Between friends there is no need of justice.
ARISTOTLE Have but few friends though much acquaintance
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Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

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