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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.