Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.