Friendship Dynamics Quotes

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

There can be no friends more benevolent than the British.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

In your early 20s, it was maybe acceptable to have a friend who was taking all of your time and energy and exhausting you and always a drama. When you're in your 30s, or you're starting to have babies, you just can't put up with it anymore, and that's okay, because I think your priorities shift.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.