A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

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

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Real friends stab you in the front.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.