Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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.
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.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
