Quotes About Relationships

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Friends are thieves of time.