Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
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.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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.
