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

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

Moliere - The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Aristotle - My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Clifton Fadiman - One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Richard Burton - False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Muhammad Ali - Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

C Sampson - Friendship like ours doesn't solve life challenges but because of our friendship I know the challenges are not mine alone.

Oscar Wilde - Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Jane Green - I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Edward Young - Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Elie Wiesel - Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Thomas S. Monson - Work will win when wishy washy wishing wont.

George Herbert - Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Thomas Jefferson - 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.