Female friendships are of rapid growth. [ Beaconsfield ]

Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. [ Proverb ]

Friendships are discovered rather than made. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends.
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still. [ Pollok ]

Friendships ought not to be unripped, but unstitched. [ Cato ]

Friendships ought to be immortal, but enmities mortal. [ Livy ]

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. [ Hazlitt ]

Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. [ Goldsmith ]

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. [ Bovee ]

Acquaintances are best formed in prosperity; friendships in adversity. [ T. A. Emmett ]

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude - roots that can be pulled up. [ George Eliot ]

The way to make friendships that will last long is to be long in making them.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. [ Fielding ]

The friendships of the world are often confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. [ Addison ]

Ceremony and great professing renders friendships as much suspected as it does religion. [ Wycherley ]

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. [ Saadi ]

How few friendships would be lasting if we knew what our best friends say of us in our absence. [ Pascal ]

The bitter word which closed all earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love, - farewell. [ Pollok ]

Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. [ D'Urfey ]

Life is to be fortified by many friendships; to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. [ S. Smith ]

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [ Sallust ]

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire. [ Colton ]

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. [ Landor ]

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts. [ Beaconsfield ]

All these are elements of happiness - love of nature, acquaintance with the wide earth, congenial intercourse with superior minds, and abiding friendships. [ Charles W. Eliot ]

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls. [ Montaigne ]

The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]