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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

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

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