Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back