Real friends stab you in the front.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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

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

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.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Children make your life important.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.