Quotes

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Impractical Jokers' is all about friendship.

We wanted to create a show that put our friendship on display.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.

You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.

It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

In more than 10 years, I've formed three real friendships. Mousa Dembele, for example. We've known each other since we were 12, our wives are from Amsterdam, he lives in London and we both have a kid.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.