Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Children make your life important.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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.
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.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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.
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.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
