Quotes About Relationships

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his

As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friend's are the ones walking in.

You May Be One Person To The World But You May Be The World To One Person.