Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Jean de La Bruyère
Law is costly; shake hands and be friends. Irish Proverb
The enemy of a father will never be friends of his son. Kurdish Proverb
A man and a goat can be friends but it would be foolishness for the goat to pay the first visit. African Proverb