"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
β FranΓ§ois de La Rochefoucauld"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
β George Washington"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
β Ralph Waldo Emerson"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side."
β Yolanda Hadid"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
β Epicurus"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."
β Henri Nouwen"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party."
β Hanya Yanagihara"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
β Thomas Jefferson"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
β William C. Menninger