Quotes for All
Coupling doesn’t always have to do with sex … Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. … Read more
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. Erica Jong
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us. … Read more
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. Edith Wharton
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most. Fay Weldon
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. Douglas Pagels
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. Doug Larson