Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.