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Quotes About Relationships

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend
~ Unknown
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
~ Gore Vidal
The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship
~ William Blake
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything
~ Unknown
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it
~ Simone Weil
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
~ Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does
~ Jane Austen
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different
~ George Santayana
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
~ Epicurus
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best
~ Unknown
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it
~ Zora Neale Hurston
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
~ George Eliot
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
~ Ben Jonson
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
~ Katharine Susannah Prichard
Be a friend to thyself and others will too
~ Thomas Fuller
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate
~ Unknown
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights
~ Oscar Levant
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two
~ Norman Douglas
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes