If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take read more

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which read more

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you read more

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. •Muhammad Ali Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. •Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. •Anonymous My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. •Anonymous Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.

There is no friendship in trade.

There is no friendship in trade.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that read more

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.