A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Children make your life important.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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.

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.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

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.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.