This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
— Gerard Arpey
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
— George MacDonald
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
— George Foreman
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
— Galina Vishnevskaya
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.
— Frankie Valli
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
— 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.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
— Francis Marion Crawford
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
— Fiona Apple
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
— Farhan Akhtar
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
— Eustace Budgell
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
— Euripides
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?
— Eugene Kennedy
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
— Ernst Mayr
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
— George Santayana
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
— George Jean Nathan
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.
— Georg Brandes
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
— Gail Honeyman
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
— Frederick William Faber
I think about growing up back in Philly. It was about friendship with the guys and having a distant crush on some gal. And when you finally got the nerve to take her out on a date, you went to her parents' house with a shine on your shoes, took her to the movies, and got her home nice and early.
— Frankie Avalon
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
— Francis Bacon
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
— Fawn M. Brodie
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
— Eve Arnold
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
— Eugene Ionesco
My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.
— Ernie Banks
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
— George Herbert
The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?
— Gavin Creel
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.
— Franklin Foer
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
— Francois Lelord
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
— Francis Quarles
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
— Francesco Guicciardini
'Dil Chahta Hai' is not the first film about friendship. 'Lakshya' is not the first film about war and coming of age.
Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
— Evangeline Lilly
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
— Ethel Barrymore
