Friendship Limits Quotes

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

Friendships can go only so far.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

It's not possible in this world to be friends with everybody. We have to choose friends and then stay with them.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Two powerful people can't be friends.

I always say a lot of fake friends are the ones I can't get into a fight with, because if I get into a fight with them, it's over.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.