 Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.  - Aristotle |
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. - Mary Dixon Thayer |
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington |
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates |
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Let your best be for your friend. - Kahlil Gibran |
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. - Cicero |
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas A. Edison |
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Aretino |
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the true source of art, science, and friendship. - Albert Einstein |
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian |
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. - James Fennimore Cooper |
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. - Lee Iacocca |
The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray.
Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day. - Hilda Brett Farr |
Let there be no purpose in friendship, save the deepening of the spirit.
Your friend is your needs answered. - Kahlil Gibran |
A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight. - Author Unknown |
Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship. - Susan P. Schultz |
My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson |
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin |
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. - James Boswell |
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus |
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. - Thomas Jefferson |
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. - Lois L. Kaufman |
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. - Swedish proverb |
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