A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Luke Ford

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
Eddie Murray

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
Gunther Schuller

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
Sophia Bush

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
John Burns

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Armistead Maupin

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana

Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
Alvin Dark

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
Saint Francis de Sales

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison