You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friendship is love without his wings!
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
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
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
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.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
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.
