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Vi bodde 18 stykker i en liten leilighet og vi hadde kun råd til grøt. Men det er bedre å spise grøt "tilsammans" enn å spise svinekoteletter alene - Fra den svenske filmen Tilsammans

Det er bedre med en venns sinne enn en fiendes kyss. Alexander Barclay.

Et vennskap basert på forretninger er bedre enn en forretning basert på vennskap. John D. Rockefeller.

Ekte kjærlighet er som spøkelser, noe alle snakker om og få har sett noe til. - Francis de La Rochefoucauld

Jeg har aldri tatt livet av noen, men jeg har lest ganske mange nekrologer med stor fornøyelse. - Clarence Darrow

"Friends are treasures." -Horace Bruns

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -Anon.

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard

"He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The road to a friend's house is never long." -Danish proverb

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." -George Washington

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." -Muhammad Ali

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." -Joseph Roux

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?" -Eugene Kennedy

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." -Pam Brown