A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Real friends stab you in the front.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.