If you have a new friend here, you are probably disturbing his rest; and the quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is!
Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever.
Friendship really needs a little more reserve. If we call everyone our friend, then we profane.[L’amitié demande un peu plus de mystère, et c’est assurément en profaner le nom que de vouloir le mettre à toute occasion.]
Friendship may be defined as a common enmity.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.[Buddhist quote on Ellen O’Farrell’s notice board]
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
