People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

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.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Real friends stab you in the front.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.