Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
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What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Friendship is love with understanding.
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.
True friendship is never serene.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.