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

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle

When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

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

True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau