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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.