Friend Quotes

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.  ~Aristotle


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.  ~Arnold H. Glasgow


The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927


A good friend is cheaper than therapy.  ~Author Unknown


If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow


But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~William Blake


A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.  ~Pam Brown


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts


If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.  ~Terri Guillemets


If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  ~Samuel Johnson


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~Dave Tyson Gentry


You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  ~Laurence J. Peter


Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  ~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit


One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.  ~D.H. Lawrence


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


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.  ~Dorothy Parker


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~Virginia Woolf


There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Author Unknown


It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich


She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved


Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.  ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  ~George MacDonald


A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.  ~Author Unknown


Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing


Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë


Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another.  Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.  ~Abraham Lincoln


Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.  ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  ~John Leonard

And more

"Once you have loved someone, you'd do anything in the world for them... except love them again." - Anonymous

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion." - Mirabeau

"Three things can't be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love." - Yiddish proverb

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed." - Chamfort

From Moonstruck:

I.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: No.
Rose: Good. When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.

II.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: Aw, ma, I love him awful.
Rose: Oh, God, that's too bad. 

"I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics." - Frank Zappa

"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton

"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did." - Edgar Watson Howe

"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I'm supposed to do...I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting." - many attributions

"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying." - unknown

"An old man who marries a young wife grows younger - but she grows older." - folk saying

Funny Love Quotes

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. 

Josh Billings

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When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife is.

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Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener!   Unknown

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The great question... which I have not been able to
    answer... is, "What  ..does a woman want?'' 

-- Freud

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Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late."
 

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I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

 David Bissonette

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When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him

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Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for."

 Mae West

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Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law

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Man is better off than woman; he marries later and dies sooner

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of person your spouse would have really preferred

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

-Oscar Wilde

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 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.—

Zsa Zsa Gabor

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My wife and I were happy for 20 years - then we met.

-Rodney Dangerfield

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The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

 Coleridge

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One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

 Benjamin Franklin

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.The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
-Henry Youngman

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
 Phyllis Diller

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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do.

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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

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Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base metal; she will not even bite it to see if it is good; all she notices is the size of it, not the quality.
Hellfire Hotchkiss

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

 Lord Byron

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"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."
Jimmy Durante.

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-- Albert Einstein - Funny Love Quotes

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
 Anonymous

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus

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 Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."
George Burns.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city."
George Burns.

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 I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't."
Patrick Murray.

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 In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker."

Woody Allen.

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday
is to forget it once

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Yawn - Nature's way of letting married men open their mouths

Anon

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 I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always.

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 I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said.
So I suggested the kitchen.

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Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

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 A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

 Milton Berle

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A wife is   someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. 

unknown

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I think, therefore I'm single.