Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Real friends stab you in the front.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.