As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
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.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Friendship is love without his wings!
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
