True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Children make your life important.

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.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.