“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
Source: The Book Thief
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Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955) Italian general
Quoted in "Marshal Is Frank" - "New York Times" article, December 23, 1940
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Source: Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#4
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Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“…The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.”
Morton Feldman (1926–1987) American avant-garde composer
Quoted in a May 1976 interview, published in Studio International (November 1976) pp 244-248.
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2011, UN speech to General Assembly (September 2011)
“Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.”
Act V, scene 2, 34, line 873.
Eunuchus