Quotes on Long Friendship

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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.