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

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

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

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”

“Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

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

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“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.”

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

“Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”