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

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.