Josh Billings Quotes

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.

My wife has taught me about unconditional love. When there's a conflict, there's never a thought that we won't work it out.

Women care about their friends.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.