A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

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

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

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 believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

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

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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 surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

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

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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.

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

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