Top 100 Quotes About Man Friendship
#1. 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
#2. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
#3. It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
Bette Lee Crosby
#4. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
#6. I can tell you I've crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than one man with eight beers.
Nick Offerman
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
Ana Gasteyer
#11. The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.
Danny Wallace
#12. To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
William Lyon Phelps
#13. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
#14. Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Plutarch
#15. 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
#16. The man was great, but no man was great enough to sever a friendship between her and one of her girls. Chicks before dicks, and all that.
Katee Robert
#17. He's afraid," Graber said.
"Yes, naturally. But he's a good dog."
"And a man-eater."
"We're all that."
"Why?"
"We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship.
Erich Maria Remarque
#18. The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.
Juliet Marillier
#19. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.
James Joyce
#21. 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
#22. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop
#23. But I must admit.' he added with a queer laugh, 'that I hoped you would take me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. But there, I believe my looks are against me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. 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
#25. Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
David O. McKay
#26. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.
Charles Bukowski
#27. The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
Sydney J. Harris
#28. Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
Immanuel Kant
#30. It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in - her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
Anna Godbersen
#31. I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
Jay Parini
#32. I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Christopher Morley
#34. A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin
#35. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." ~ 'The Black Cat.
Edgar Allan Poe
#36. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.
Ueda Akinari
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
Agnes Smedley
#42. The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.
Micheal Rivers
#43. She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
Tamora Pierce
#44. Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#45. I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known
how to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humble
surroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war
in
all the exalted elements of romance.
Joseph Conrad
#46. Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.
Robin Hobb
#50. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.
Donald McCaig
#52. A loan is the scissors of friendship.
A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird.
Idries Shah
#53. That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
Jude Morgan
#54. Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war
Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost
Steven Moffat
#55. Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Thomas F. Wilson
#56. I believe in finding a man who can be your best friend, because once the lust fades, friendship is what will hold the foundation of your marriage together.
Nicole Simone
#57. 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
#58. Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.
Herbert Mason
#59. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature.
Tendai Huchu
#61. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
#62. Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco
#64. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
#65. I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in our bond, there was not. That was not what we were to one another. What we had went beyond that.
Robin Hobb
#66. Brodie Bruce:
You're gonna listen to me? To something I said!? Jesus, man, haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit? I mean half the time I'm just talking out of my ass ... or sticking my hand in it.
Kevin Smith
#67. Love between man and woman is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
James Joyce
#68. A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Baltasar Gracian
#69. The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#70. I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to "curtail the friendship".
Elisabeth Elliot
#71. I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
La India
#72. 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
#73. I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.
Beccy Cole
#74. One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!
Tennessee Williams
#75. Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ...
C.S. Lewis
#76. Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Jessica Clare
#77. There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure
that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.
Herbert Hoover
#78. He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.
Tracy Guzeman
#79. Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage.
Gordon Merrick
#80. There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse.
Aleksandra Layland
#81. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.
Thomas Hughes
#82. Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'
(Women in Love)
D.H. Lawrence
#84. I guess a man's best friend is his mother.
Vina Delmar
#85. No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend
Colin Higgins
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends.
Todd Stocker
#89. When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
#90. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#91. I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Thomas Jefferson
#92. 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
#93. The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
Hojo Soun
#94. General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
#95. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#96. Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#97. Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. 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
