Friendships

Famous quotes containing the word friendships:

“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“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 (1835–1902)

“Then if my friendships break and bend,
There’s little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful till I die.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)