The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
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.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
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.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back