It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Real friends stab you in the front.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
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.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
