Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Children make your life important.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.