Quotes About Boundaries

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

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

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.