Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of 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.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
