Quotes About Relationships

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

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

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

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

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.

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.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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?