The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Children make your life important.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Real friends stab you in the front.