Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.