3 December 2020 Pope Benedict XVI Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
3 December 2020 Margaret Cavendish And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
3 December 2020 Henri Nouwen When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
3 December 2020 Zhang Ziyi When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
3 December 2020 Eamon de Valera The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
3 December 2020 Sean Bean 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
3 December 2020 Clifton Paul Fadiman One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
3 December 2020 John Tyler So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
3 December 2020 Alice Duer Miller If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
3 December 2020 George Santayana One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
3 December 2020 Tom Lehrer My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that’s just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
3 December 2020 Steven Van Zandt Rock n’ roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
3 December 2020 Mortimer Adler Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
3 December 2020 James Whistler The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
