The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
~ Barbara Bush
The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
~ Yvonne De Gaulle
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.
~ Jacques Delille
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
A good friend is my nearest relation.
~ Thomas Fuller
It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.
~ Anne Tyler
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
~ Euripides
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
~ Oprah Winfrey
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
~ German Proverb
A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Friendship admits of differences of character as love does that of sex.
~ Anonymous
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
~ Mason Cooley
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
~ Joseph Conrad
There are formalities between the closest of friends.
~ Japanese Proverb
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.
~ Michel De Montaigne
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
~ Terence
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
~ Warren G. Harding
There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
~ Alfred
It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.
~ La Rochefoucauld
A friend in power is a friend lost.
~ Henry Adams
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
~ Agnes Macphail
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
~ Woodrow Wilson
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.
~ G. K. Chesterton
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.
~ Aristotle
The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
~ Molière
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
~ Goethe
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
~ Joseph Joubert
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
