Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Words of Wisdom

"Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet."
John Selden

"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."
George Eliot

"Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it."

Oscar Wilde

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

Goethe

"From quiet homes and first beginnings, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Hilaire Belloc

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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

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