“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings.”

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

“I saw a well-meaning policy statement that said ‘College begins in Kindergarten'. No it doesn’t, Kindergarten begins in Kindergarten. A friend of mine once said ‘A Three-Year old is not half a Six-Year old.”

“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”

“I always wanted to have many friends, unfortunately, friends are formed with years, and not everybody know how to respond as a friend.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks. You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.”