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

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

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

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.

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

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

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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