ok now for the 4th time in trying to post on this topic!! Certainly wasn't a stress relief for me!!!!
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. -- Ben Franklin
I don't remember when I first begun to call you "friend". One day, I only know, the vague companioship that I'd seen grow
So imperceptibly, turned gold, and ran In tune with all I'd thougth or dared to plan. -- Florence Steigerwalt

and my all-time favorite

DO NOT USE A HATCHET TO REMOVE A FLY FROM YOUR FRIEND'S FOREHEAD! --CHINESE PROVERB