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Quotes About Relationships

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.
~ Unknown
Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.
~ Unknown
I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
~ Coco Chanel
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
~ Henry Clay Trumbull
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
~ Hesiod
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
~ Unknown
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
~ Lauren Bacall
In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
~ Michel de Montaigne
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
~ C. S. Lewis
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
~ Aristotle
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
~ Bob Dylan
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
~ Hesiod
friendship was always contingent.
~ Margaret Atwood
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
~ William Shakespeare
You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
~ Frank A. Vanderlip
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
~ Steven Pinker
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.
~ Fran Lebowitz