Brooks Adams Quotes

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

My eighty percent friend is not my twenty percent enemy.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

If there's one thing I learned about being with someone, it's you have to be willing to give every drop of yourself. Both people need to sacrifice so much to make it work and most of my single friends they don't want to do that.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.