Old Friends Quotations

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting,

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it.

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.

An old friend is a new house.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

King Fahd was also committed to the strong and trusting relations between France and Saudi Arabia. This old friendship, which began with an exceptional link established by General De Gaulle, took on a new dimension under his reign, helped by a shared vision of what was at stake regionally and internationally.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

The inclusiveness of the Drama League luncheon is one of the most exciting things about it. I get to see old friends and meet new friends. Of course I can't tell who anybody is if they're under the age of 75. So my old friends become my new friends.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda," he told the Times. "I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the other place, let's face it.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

Old friends are best.

There's no friends like the old friends.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

Many people consider me an old friend.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Old friends are memories personified.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.