Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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 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.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Real friends stab you in the front.
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.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
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.
