The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
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.
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.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Real friends stab you in the front.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Children make your life important.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
