Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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

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.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

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.