“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
Source: The Women of Brewster Place
“Friendship with oneself is all important.”
Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“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.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”
“I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.”
“In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”
Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919
“Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
Source: Love and will
“The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.”
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
Source: The Doctor, &c
“The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Source: Winchell exclusive:
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Source: The Waves