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We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value read more
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
 Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; 
and pass the rosy wine.  
 Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; 
and pass the rosy wine. 
 It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten 
before the duties of friendship can read more 
 It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten 
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
 [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut 
amicitia munus expletum sit.] 
 Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what 
constitutes true friendship.  
 Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what 
constitutes true friendship. 
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!