To find a friend one must ...

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.
 Norman Douglas

Quotes from the same author

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
 Norman Douglas
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
 Norman Douglas
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
 Norman Douglas
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
 Norman Douglas