The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
