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.

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

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.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship is love without his wings!

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

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

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.

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.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.