Friend

And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.

----------------------------------A.E.Housman

It's been years. Years and years and years since I've been home, but still at night in my dreams I hear the calling and the laughter of my friends.

Good friends are like stars in the sky, even though they're sometimes hidden by clouds

Jane is the woman whom I was trapped with in an elevator, which had stopped working all of a sudden. While waiting to be rescued, we told each other Gothic stories, which made us alternate between thrill and laughter. In the end, we had got to be friends. Laughter and imagination have been characteristics of our friendship down to the present day.

»Oh yes,« he replied, »my very well-known friend. He's to meet me here, coming up from Malvern, and I supposed he'd already have arrived. But he doesn't come till later, and I'm relieved not to have kept him. Do you know him?« Strether wound up.

To find a friend one must close one eye –
to keep him, two.

Norman Douglas

A true friend remains a friend even when you don't deserve to have a friend.

For a holiday, Mulvaney decided to go to Switzerland to fulfill a lifelong dream and climb the Matterhorn. He hired a guide and just as they neared the top, the men were caught in a snow slide.
Three hours later, a Saint Bernard plowed through to them, a keg of brandy tied under his chin.
»Hooray!« shouted the guide. »Here comes man's best friend!«
»Yeah,« said Mulvaney. »An' look at the size of the dog that's bringin' it!«

i am a perfect friend – caretaking as hell, cheering my friends up when they need it, a good listener, never judging, open-hearted, honest, tolerant,....  – wonder if i will ever meet someone who can be as good a friend to me... – AH, well, there is of course Enrico!