My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
George R.R. Martin
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FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik]
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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,
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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 Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
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ALLY BARNES We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.
JESSE ANDREWS There's no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCE She was very nice. Usually people come up and say they like our band, so it's a great place to make ...
BENJI MADDEN Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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WAYNE WONDER Summer is huge. Winter is kind of like little, compared to summer. But, yes, it will get bigger and ...
LI YAN It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.
IVANA TRUMP But I couldn’t comprehend this making friends business. My friends had always made me.
COLIN MACLAUGHLIN It's the gap in the teeth. My friends say I look like Shrek - some of my friends - and you can...
LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN Flee away from negative friends but die with positive friends
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA I used to have my own friends, of course I did, but it’s like the dentist told me when I was a kid...
MELISSA DECARLO Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
DONALD HALL Condiments are like old friends-highly thought of, but often taken for granted.
MARILYN KAYTOR My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a g...
LEE IACOCCA When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...
JOHN GREEN My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.
SANTOSH KALWAR Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
JOHN SELDEN I won't forget when I couldn't go to bed with the lights off
When I heard that voice call me in...
REAL FRIENDS You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before REAL FRIENDS Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN I've always wanted to eat surrounded by my 'old friends' - books that I've read.
JOE HALE Friends last but good memories will live forever until you leave the memories.
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BENJI LEVI MADDEN My friends, there are no friends.
COCO CHANEL Old friends; new friends, come and go, but the best one's are ready when it's time for the show!
PENNY D SHERWOOD My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.
WILFORD BRIMLEY "Precious Angels are your forever friends, who are always willing to embrace you with a wing, so you...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party frie...
JACK OSBOURNE When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered sum...
ALEXANDER CHEE Friends will be there, real Friends are there
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DANA MARTELL Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ar...
DALAI LAMA Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ar...
DALAI LAMA Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ar...
DALAI LAMA XIV Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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BRAY LOVE And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
WALTER WINCHELL A long summer always meant a long winter to come.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
ANONYMOUS Good friends are like stars, You don't always see them but you know they're always there.
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ANONYMOUS My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
t...
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LEE IACOCCA Best fabulous flamingo friends forever.
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VIJAY We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
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“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN