Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.
A dear friend of mine once told me that the only way around is through. I now live by this.
I love Simon Cowell, he's a dear friend.
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.