"How to be friendly: write to one another."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.

"Holdin' his friends."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

"Neither of us had ever been able to explain the strange things that happened when we were together."  From Beyond Reality, No. 27.

A lie taught in college: "Friends last forever."  From Elon College's 1986 yearbook.

From Gannon University's 1982 yearbook. 

"Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold.  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray; [true] friendship never knows decay" (Joseph Parry).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

"There's friendship in a book, too."  From The Instructor, 1958.

"Little friends may prove great friends."  From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.

"'We were versy close friends and spent much time together, then all at once, strange things began to happen.'  Magic friendship."  From Beyond Reality, No. 27.

"One warm friend is worth?.."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.

Damon and Pythias.  From Festival and Civic Plays from Greek and Roman Tales by Mari Ruef Hofer, 1931.

From Eastern Mennonite College's 1966 yearbook.

From York Junior's 1954 yearbook.

"Exhibitionists like to get all the attention; they want friends who will stay back in the shadows."  From Making and Keeping Friends by William Menninger, 1952.

The spiked "Be My Friend" club.  From Making and Keeping Friends by William Menninger, 1952.

The ups and downs of friendship.  From Making and Keeping Friends by William Menninger, 1952.

"There are ships that come in and ships that go out with colors flying gay, but best of all is friend ship for it never goes away."  From Colorado College's 1933 yearbook.

"Why not make this a world of friends?"  From The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard, 1916.

Here's proof that I'm not merely a "friend and pal" of Cinderella, but I'm a friend and pal of her friends, too.  (Tip: having annual passes for both Disneyland and Walt Disney World really helps.)  The text reads, "With greetings and best wishes to our friend and pal, Craig.  —Cinderella and friends."  It's been theorized that friends of friends invite one to "harness the power of loose ties," and sadly that doesn't mean neckties that aren't knotted too tightly but rather casual acquaintanceships.  If you'd like me to put in a good word for you to either Cinderella or any of her friends, as a token of your seriousness just put a penny in my tip jar: paypal.me/profoddfellow.

A vow of friendship from Pick Me Up, 1892.