Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
Interpretation
Time may change our appearance, but true friendship deepens and endures regardless of circumstances.
This quote by John Lyly highlights the contrasting effects of time on physical beauty and deep human connections. While our faces may develop wrinkles as we age, the bonds we form with true friends only become stronger, enriched by shared experiences and resilience against life's adversities. True friendship is not swayed by external conditions or the passage of time; it remains constant and vibrant.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of enduring friendships.
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
I'm down for you, so ride with me._x000D_ _x000D_ My enemies your enemies,_x000D_ _x000D_ Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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