"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
~ Thomas Jefferson.
"Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is slow-ripening fruit."
~ Aristotle
"The best friend is the man who is
wishing me well wishes for my sake."
~ Aristotle
"It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never explain your friends, they do not need it,
and your enemies will not believe you anyways.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Contests allow no excuses,
no more do friendships.
~ Ibycus
