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Quotes About Relationships

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
~ Quintilian
In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
~ Beth Kephart
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
~ Walter Savage Landor
We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
~ Anthony Horowitz
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
~ James Howell
People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.
~ Elif Batuman
Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
~ Kristin Hannah
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
~ Jane Smiley
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
~ Jonathan Swift
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
~ Richard Russo
I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.
~ Patricia Clarkson
Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
~ Bob Marley
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
~ Samuel Johnson
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
~ Samuel Johnson
Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.
~ Stephen King