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.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
