Age appears to be best in four things, old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -Francis Bacon
The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort , the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -Dinah Craik
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born- Anais Nin
You that would judge me, do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon,
Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace,
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.- William Butler Yeats
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 much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.- Henri Nouwen
A good friend will bail you out of jail and lecture you about how you messed up. A great friend will be sitting right next to you laughing about it saying “damn, we really screwed up!”-Unknown
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.- Albert Camus
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.- Arnold H Glasgow
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.- C.S. Lewis
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. JohnLeonard
“I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
– William Shakespeare
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.Muhammad Ali
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.- Katherine Mansfield
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrick
