Henry Adams Quotes

There is no life without friendship

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

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Life is nothing without friendship.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

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.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I really only have a few friends.

For me, I'm lucky to have a lot of close friends - through football or through my family.

The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.