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Quotes About Relationships

Friendship is stronger than kindred.
~ Publilius Syrus
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.
~ Jane Green
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
~ Nathanael Emmons
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
~ Gail Sheehy
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
~ Abraham Cowley
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
~ Agnes Repplier
Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.
~ John Green
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship reaches well above all currency.
~ Robert M. Hensel
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
~ John Knowles
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
~ Guy Kawasaki
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
~ Fanny Burney
Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.
~ David Ayer
Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
~ Publilius Syrus
Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.
~ Emily Giffin
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.
~ Judith Guest