Never exaggerate your faults;
your friends will attend to that!

-Cicero-

We are so fond of one another,
because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

But of all plagues, good Heaven
thy wrath can send,
Save me, oh save me, from the
candid friend.

George Canning

Anybody can sympathize
with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires
a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend's
success.

Oscar Wilde

A real friend never gets
in your way.
Unless you happen to be
on the way down.

Author Unknown

There is a destiny that makes
us brothers:
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into
The lives of others come
Back into our own.

Edwin Markham

When friends are real,
they are not glass threads
or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people come into our lives
and quickly go.......
Some people stay for a while
And leave their footprints
On our hearts,
And we are never, ever the same.

Flavia

Old friends stay the same age forever.

Pam Brown

With an old friend you can be more
authentic than with anyone else.
You probably know everything there
is to know about each other,
there is no need for pretense, or
explanation.
Instead, you have the shared
experiences, crazy memories, and
deep understanding.

Celia Brayfield

None of us are as young
as we were. So what?
Friendship never ages.

W.H. Auden

My friend!
You yourself are my treasure,
The chain of gold around my neck.

Bengali Folk Song