Mary Heaton Vorse Quotes

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.