Old Friends Quotations | Page 2

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.