In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
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.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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.
