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

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

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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.

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

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

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.