Quotes on Friendship

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Keep your friendships in repair.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.