Quotes about Old Friends

Old friends are best. Votes: 3

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. Votes: 3

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Votes: 3

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Votes: 3

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Votes: 3

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Votes: 3

The best mirror is an old friend. Votes: 2

There's no friends like the old friends. Votes: 2

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. Votes: 2

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Votes: 2

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. Votes: 2

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. Votes: 2

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. Votes: 2

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. Votes: 2

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. Votes: 2

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. Votes: 2

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. Votes: 2

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. Votes: 2

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. Votes: 2

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way. Votes: 2

When I see old friends, I'm very excited. Votes: 1

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting. Votes: 1

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. Votes: 1

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. Votes: 1

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. Votes: 1

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Votes: 1

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was. Votes: 1

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. Votes: 1

I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel. Votes: 1

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family. Votes: 1

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. Votes: 1

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. Votes: 1

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends. Votes: 1

Old friends are memories personified. Votes: 0

We grow too old to lose old friends ... Votes: 0

My dear old dog, most constant of all friends. Votes: 0

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out. Votes: 0

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. Votes: 0

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting, Votes: 0

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. Votes: 0

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." Votes: 0

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age. Votes: 0

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. Votes: 0

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! Votes: 0

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. Votes: 0

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. Votes: 0

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't. Votes: 0

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel. Votes: 0

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. Votes: 0

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. Votes: 0

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. Votes: 0

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. Votes: 0

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. Votes: 0

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. Votes: 0

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. Votes: 0

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh. Votes: 0

Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends. Votes: 0

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend. Votes: 0

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Votes: 0

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. Votes: 0

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. Votes: 0

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand. Votes: 0

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Votes: 0

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. Votes: 0

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death Votes: 0

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. Votes: 0

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. Votes: 0

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. Votes: 0

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. Votes: 0

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important. Votes: 0

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Votes: 0

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence. Votes: 0

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. Votes: 0

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. Votes: 0

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent. Votes: 0

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends. Votes: 0

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both Votes: 0

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same. Votes: 0

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. Votes: 0

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. Votes: 0

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old. Votes: 0

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money. Votes: 0

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. Votes: 0

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them. Votes: 0

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s. Votes: 0

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. Votes: 0

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends... Votes: 0

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. Votes: 0

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. Votes: 0

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. Votes: 0

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior. Votes: 0

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. Votes: 0

I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy. Votes: 0

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. Votes: 0

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. Votes: 0

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... Votes: 0

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends. Votes: 0

You 50 year old one-breasted bag of meat. Just hang it up and be grateful some of your friends are still living. Votes: 0

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. Votes: 0

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Votes: 0

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not. Votes: 0

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China. Votes: 0

Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see. Votes: 0

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional. Votes: 0

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other. Votes: 0

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still. Votes: 0

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have. Votes: 0

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. Votes: 0

I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart. Votes: 0

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately. Votes: 0

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Votes: 0

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. Votes: 0

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities. Votes: 0

(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again. Votes: 0

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends. Votes: 0

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. Votes: 0

Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend. Votes: 0

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels. Votes: 0

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with. Votes: 0

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. Votes: 0

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. Votes: 0

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. Votes: 0

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. Votes: 0

I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline. Votes: 0

Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends. Votes: 0

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter. Votes: 0

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone. Votes: 0

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends. Votes: 0

I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip. Votes: 0

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships." Votes: 0

We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love. Votes: 0

I've worn jeans until they're ripped all the way around the crotch and I can't wear them any longer. You get so attached to jeans, they're like old friends. Votes: 0

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships. Votes: 0

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets. Votes: 0

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best! Votes: 0