Relationship Sayings and Quotes (3)
Sayings about Relationships
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
I have to really like you to share my food with you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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