قام معد هذا الكتاب ( Nick Beilenson ) بجمع أقوال الشخصيات العالمية البارزة المؤثرة في المجتمعات العالمية المتعلقة بالصداقة ، و لقد كان تباين آراء هذه الشخصيات واضحا في وصف الصداقة و ماذا تعني لهم ؛ و ذلك بسبب اختلاف خبرات كل فرد عن الآخر ।
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain a long drought .
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out . ( Walter Winchell )
You can choose your friends but friends but you can’t choose your relatives . ( Charlie Brown )
A friend in need is a friend indeed . ( English Proverb )
Friendship is Love without his wings . ( Lord Byron )
True friends , like ivy and the wall , Both stand together , and together fall . ( Thomas Carlylf )
Be slow in choosing a friend , slower in changing . ( Benjamin Franklin )
A brother may not be a friend , but a friend will always be a brother . ( Benjamin Franklin )
A friendless man is like a left hand without a right . ( Hebrew Proverb )
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy ; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend . ( George Bernard Shaw )
The language of friendship is not words , but meanings . It is an intelligence above language . ( Henry David Thoreau )
Choose thy friends like thy books , few but choice . ( James Howell )
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain . It’s not something you learn in school . But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship , you really haven’t learned anything . ( Muhammad Ali )
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together । ( Woodrow Wilson )
و أنتم ماذا تعني لكم الصداقة ؟!