Old friends, like old wines, don’t lose their flavour.

Jewish proverb

Friends are family we choose for ourselves.

Edna Buchanan

Friendship is like a rose… opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds… day by day does it reveal its true beauty.

Joan Walsh Anglund

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed — that can make life a garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Flavia

Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different world.

Andrew M. Greeley

How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Grace Noll Crowell