3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
3 December 2020 Paul Simon I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
3 December 2020 Jasmine Guy The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
3 December 2020 Bradley Chicho Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty – attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
3 December 2020 Epicurus It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
3 December 2020 Eugene Kennedy 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?
3 December 2020 Robert Staughton Lynd Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
3 December 2020 Ernie Banks Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.
3 December 2020 Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
3 December 2020 Richard Lugar I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Edwards Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
3 December 2020 Lauren Conrad Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
3 December 2020 Austin O'Malley Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
3 December 2020 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
3 December 2020 William Glasser Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
3 December 2020 Francis Marion Crawford No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.
