Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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.

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

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.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.