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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.
Tim Allen on friendship

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.
Edgar Allan Poe on friendship

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher on friendship

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey on friendship

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama on friendship

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin on friendship

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire on friendship

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel on friendship

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher on friendship

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton on friendship

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote on friendship

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson on friendship

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne on friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on friendship

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron on friendship

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher on friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas on friendship