There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.