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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.