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

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

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Real friends stab you in the front.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.