Robert E. Sherwood Quotes

Better have friends in the market-place than money in your coffer.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

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

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

It's very hard to get together with your friends. You rarely see friends as a whole group.

It's going to sound cheesy, but if I have family and friends I don't really care where I am.

I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.

The good life is built with good relationships.

We have to recognize that we can help increase happiness of other people by reaching out, and building connections. People have done that for me in my life. There have been many times that my family and friends have reached out to help support me and contributed to my emotional wellbeing, and ultimately to my health.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.

I am wealthy in my friends.

I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

Friends make life a lot more fun.

Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.