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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Lots of people want 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.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.