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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.