The Arvon Friends Office has been collecting some delicious words on friendship. Here’s some turns of phrase for all friends out there. (Thanks to Sara for compiling these.)

Jane Austen -
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Italian Proverb -
He who finds a friend, finds a treasure

Jane Austen -
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

C S Lewis -
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”

Sir Francis Bacon -
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Oscar Wilde -
True friends stab you in the front.

W H Auden -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

William Blake -
The bird a nest
     the spider a web
          the human friendship.

Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Mark Twain -
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

William Shakespeare (from Much Ado about Nothing) -
Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love . . .