The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.
You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.
Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.
Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
Friendship first, competition second.
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.