Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.
May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.
True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
From wine what sudden friendship springs?
What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?