friendship

"One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

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

"The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff."

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

"I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you."

"The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally."

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

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

"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have."

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."