Quotes about Relationships

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.