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

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

Children make your life important.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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.

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

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 a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

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.

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

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.