"We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often."
Jeanette Winterson
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
Joseph Roux
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Edward W. Howe
"When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man."
Alice Duer Miller
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
Henri Nouwen
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
Aristotle
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."
Sarah Orne Jewett
"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
Laurence J. Peter
