Greeting Cards For Treasured Friends, For A Treasured Friend. Sharing Victories Tragedies and Comedies

We compared notes,
my friend and I...
shly, nervously,
but strangely willing to tell
the truth about our youth,
about our then, about our now...
How many have you had?
Did you care about them all?
Were they young? Old? Splended? Tall?
You mean you had one too?
Whose name you never did quite know?
All right, all right,
I understand.
I had one too. It made me grow.
And a man you clearly didn't love,
the kind that made you feel a whore?...
I had one too...yes.
What a bore...and degrading.
It chewed a nibble from my soul.
Oh, and one so old. And two so young.
I've come unsprung. I'm telling you all this?
about them all?
right up to the very end?
But you tell me too, and feel good,
loved, accepted, understood,
sharing my victories and disgraces,
tragedies and comedies,
bruises and how they mend...
with one single, very special,
treasued
friend.
Author:
Daniel Steel


My best friend is the man who in
wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

A friend may well be reckoned
the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in the thirties that we
want friends. In the forties
we know they won't save us
any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

My father always used to say that
when you die, if you've got five
real friends, then you've had
a great life.
Lee Iacocca

You shall judge a man by his
foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad