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Quotes About Relationships

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.
~ Unknown
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
~ American Proverb
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .
~ John Donne
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
~ Swedish Proverb
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many
~ Unknown
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim
~ Thomas Paine
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first
~ Peter Ustinov
The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends
~ Benjamin Franklin
Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
~ Unknown
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.
~ Eskimo proverb
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
~ George Santayana
Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm only a friend. Though I'll be with you, until the end.
~ Chinese Proverbs
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
~ Kate Moss
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~ Sting
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
~ Joan Jett
What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
~ Jack Kevorkian
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
~ W Somerset Maugham
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~ W Somerset Maugham
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
~ Baltasar Gracian
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
~ Merle Haggard
Real friends stab you in the front.
~ Jonathan Davis
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge