Phyllis McGinley Quotes

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

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

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.

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.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.

You can never have too many friends.