A man should never neglect his family for business.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
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.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Real friends stab you in the front.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
