3 December 2020 Juan Antonio Samaranch Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
3 December 2020 Saint Francis de Sales A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
3 December 2020 John Mayall Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it’s a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
3 December 2020 Hilaire Belloc When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
3 December 2020 Georg Brandes My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
3 December 2020 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
3 December 2020 Doug Larson A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
3 December 2020 Hank Haney I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that’s involves business and friendship – and the business part comes to an end – things always get a little blurry.
3 December 2020 Len Wein A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
3 December 2020 John Cusack I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
3 December 2020 Stephanie Tubbs Jones My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
3 December 2020 Isabel Lucas People instantly assume you can’t have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. – or America.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
3 December 2020 Samuel Richardson Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
3 December 2020 James Joyce Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
3 December 2020 Warren Christopher I’ve got many close friends, but there’s an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
