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

Real friends stab you in the front.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

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

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

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.