“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.”
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
“I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.”
“When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.”
“People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”