I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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

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

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

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.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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