"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." ― Aristotle Topic(s): Friendship Tags: friends, wishing More From Aristotle "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." "Bad men are full of repentance." "Hope is a waking dream." More In Friendship "I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard."― Maria Bartiromo "Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places."― Charles de Lint "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."― Henry Ward Beecher