Top 100 Quotes About Friendship Men
#1. She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before - a fountain of friendship towards men - a
George Eliot
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
#5. Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.
Jean De La Bruyere
#7. For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
Sophocles
#8. 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
#9. Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
Andre Maurois
#12. We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
Nicholas Grimald
#15. When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
Michel De Montaigne
#16. 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
#17. A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Baltasar Gracian
#18. To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
Hunter S. Thompson
#19. Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
Terry Kay
#20. 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
#21. As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.
Nora Ephron
#22. 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
#23. Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Rolf Hochhuth
#24. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
#25. 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.
Aristotle.
#26. We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
Friedrich Schiller
#27. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#28. 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
#30. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#31. It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
George Bernard Shaw
#35. As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
George Santayana
#36. Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle.
#37. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. 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
#39. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker
#44. I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
Charlie Chaplin
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
Aldous Huxley
#48. To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship, but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven't bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune.
Mesa Selimovic
#51. Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.
Shahla Khan
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
Abhysheq Shukla
#56. Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
Joe Abercrombie
#57. Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#58. 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
#59. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.
Louise J. Kaplan
#60. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#61. 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
#62. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
#63. Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Plutarch
#64. 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
#65. I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
Ana Gasteyer
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
Calvin Coolidge
#69. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#70. 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
#71. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.
Shahla Khan
#72. 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
#73. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
#75. Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
#76. 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
#77. Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.
Mario Puzo
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.
Donald McCaig
#82. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.
Nike Thaddeus
#83. Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.
John Calvin
#84. 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
#85. A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#86. American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic ... The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.
Dumas Malone
#87. I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
Agnes Smedley
#88. 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
#90. 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
#91. The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
Martha Mason
#92. One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
Hill Harper
#95. Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
Immanuel Kant
#96. Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.
George Edward Moore
#97. Girls are so much nicer than men (apart from Tom-but homosexual).
Helen Fielding
#98. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#99. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#100. If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.
Archibald Rutledge
