Top 100 Men Friendship Quotes
#1. For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
Sophocles
#2. Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
#3. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f
them, but I can now say I'm engaged - get away from me,
Amanda Bynes
#5. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.
Shahla Khan
#6. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry Fielding
#7. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
Alicia Machado
#9. I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
Ana Gasteyer
#10. Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Plutarch
#11. A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne
#12. To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Frank Frankfort Moore
#13. Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
Abhysheq Shukla
#14. Jason's heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men.
Rick Riordan
#15. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
William Cowper
#16. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.
Zack Love
#17. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#18. Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
Immanuel Kant
#19. One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
Abraham Lincoln
#21. We started college having 18 years old young, naive spirit and we left as grown ups, men and women with life long friendships,life partners, it made us who we are whether we like it or not.
Anonymous Young Girl
#22. As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.
Thomas Paine
#23. It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.
Donald McCaig
#25. Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#27. The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.
Elizabeth Alder
#28. Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.
Mario Puzo
#29. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding
#32. They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.
Jeremy Brett
#33. A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Baltasar Gracian
#34. Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.
John Locke
#35. She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before - a fountain of friendship towards men - a
George Eliot
#36. What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#37. When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
#38. An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
#39. We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats
#40. To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an
immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.
John Bunyan
#42. A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.
David Hume
#43. In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
Major Taylor
#44. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Thomas Jefferson
#45. Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate
#46. Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even to my foe, and will not have become poorer thereby.
There is comradeship: may there be friendship!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle.
#49. Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect and friendship of my training partners, who were mostly Japanese men sincerely surprised to find themselves training with an American woman.
Linda Holiday
#50. There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
Patrick Rothfuss
#51. The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
Thomas Szasz
#52. Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.
Benjamin Franklin
#53. Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Tamora Pierce
#54. Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
Ian McEwan
#55. Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#56. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Bill Vaughan
#57. Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.
Stuart Miller
#58. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.
Mary Renault
#59. What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.
Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
#60. A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#61. Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
Benjamin Disraeli
#62. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
#63. Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.
David Bowie
#64. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
Marlin K. Jensen
#65. I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#66. But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle - friendship can only exist between good men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#67. Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.
C.M. Stunich
#68. Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.
Elizabeth Bear
#69. A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.
Clarence H. Burns
#70. In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
George Whyte-Melville
#71. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.
Samuel Johnson
#72. Most men love to see their best friend in abasement; for generally it is on such abasement that friendship is founded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#73. I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.
Alyse M. Gardner
#74. Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
Jean De La Bruyere
#76. The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
Robert E. Sherwood
#77. Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time.
Thomm Quackenbush
#78. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Benjamin Franklin
#79. To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
Samuel Parr
#80. Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
Douglas Malloch
#81. What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
George Santayana
#82. Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#83. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.
Gavriel Savit
#84. Strong men serving together thrive in the strength their friendship provides.
James MacDonald
#85. He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
Laozi
#86. I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
Joanna Lumley
#87. A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn't have friends.
Montesquieu
#88. In the arena of friendship and in sharp contrast to today, men were perceived to be far superior to women at forging bonds with members of the same sex, in part because women were expected to save their empathy and relational resources for their husbands.
Anonymous
#89. Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.
John Dryden
#90. I'm a big man and I like big dogs ... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.
Wilt Chamberlain
#91. Our villagers are born to religion. But they show no interest in that aspect of religion which means unity,friendship,love and respect for others, and so forth, in other words, in such things as lead men to righteousness and fullness of life.
Mahmut Makal
#92. The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Francis Bacon
#93. Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
Courtney Milan
#94. Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
Bantu Holomisa
#96. She craves men but women are her most abiding lovers. Her friends are her soul mates, all the love without the consumption of sex and romance, a different kind of intimacy. Women make love by admiring each other, studying and envying each other and mixing it all up in a pot of devotion.
G.G. Renee Hill
#97. I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
Albert Camus
#98. Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying
That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
#99. Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.
Rick Riordan
#100. The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
