Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
Real friends stab you in the front.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
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.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.