Top 76 An Old Friendship Quotes
#1. Hey, old friend. What do you say, old friend? Make it okay, old friend, Give an old friendship a break. Why so grim? We're going on forever. You, me, him - too many lives are at stake ... - STEPHEN SONDHEIM, OLD FRIENDS
Neil Gaiman
#2. I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
Abigail McCarthy
#3. My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
George R R Martin
#4. People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off ... Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.
Denise Hildreth Jones
#6. Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
#7. You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.
Kassia
#8. The old man bridled at this. All his life he had gone out of his way to avoid any situation that might be mistaken for a friendship.
Dan Rhodes
#9. This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
Margaret Atwood
#10. Friendship with the latter marked the breakdown of two old prejudices. At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both.
C.S. Lewis
#11. It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#12. New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
Gail Caldwell
#14. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
#15. I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people
Nathanael Kanyinga
#16. I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. One thing was certain: he was my one. Most people go on their whole lives and never find their one, but I found mine. I found him when I was twelve-years-old.
Jennifer Edlund
#18. Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Austin O'Malley
#19. Since the moment I saw her yesterday, I've been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration that comes with any old flame. But now, for the first time, I'm not just seeing what I want. I'm seeing what my friend needs.
Brad Meltzer
#20. Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends.
Sanober Khan
#21. But that was the strange comfort of long-standing friendship - ribbons of familiarity and old love woven through your life.
Alexis Hall
#22. How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.
Shel Silverstein
#23. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#24. The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.
Ted Nugent
#25. I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
Joseph Conrad
#26. December is an old friend; it reminds you of the past, together you share some laughs and tears, you feel warm-hearted though it's freezing outside. But, the goodbye is inevitable. May the memories we share with this friend next year be filled with comfort, peace and Love.
Mohamed Atef
#27. Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief.
Liane Moriarty
#29. I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#30. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
#31. Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster
#32. To the return of old friends and to an unexpected but most welcome new one.
Veronica Rossi
#33. An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
Mason Cooley
#34. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.
Benjamin Franklin
#35. A crazy old lady, leading a band of teenagers against an angry supernatural Entity - who'da thought?
Diane M. Haynes
#36. Love is the most powerful healing force of all. But past
demons have a way of ripping open old wounds, and
threatening the survival of even the strongest friendship ...
Cherrie Lynn
#37. Because sometimes .. god gifts are not extra money , properties , or even beauty ... sometimes it's just a remembrance from an old friend when you really need it.
and that's just priceless !
Anonymous
#38. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.
D.E. Stevenson
#39. I think if our new direction in all our relationships is friendship, compassion, and enjoyment, we will easily be able to break our old cycle of bad habits and develop something deeper and more meaningful
Evan Sutter
#41. 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.
Dave Matthews
#42. If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.
Archibald Rutledge
#43. Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Lisa See
#44. A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
#45. You'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.
Dan Pearce
#46. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
#47. There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson
#48. Adam searched out old friends from the neighborhood. They drank beer together in the garden of the Stag & Hounds, trading stories and trying their best to ignore the inescapable truth - that the ties that once bound them were loosening by the year and might soon be gone altogether.
Mark Mills
#49. So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.
Marilyn Yalom
#51. What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot
#52. The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
William Hazlitt
#53. And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know
Aldous Huxley
#54. He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!
Michael Ende
#55. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#56. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#57. Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
Aaron Sorkin
#58. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Sophie Swetchine
#60. French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
#61. Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good.
Manasa Rao
#62. A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
Christopher Hitchens
#63. I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.
Fidelis O. Mkparu
#64. The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
Armistead Maupin
#65. I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness.
Ben Dolnick
#67. I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known
how to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humble
surroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war
in
all the exalted elements of romance.
Joseph Conrad
#68. They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the aroma of every moment two close souls once spent together, they magnify every little shared pleasure.
Carol Vorvain
#69. 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.
Phillips Brooks
#70. We started college having 18 years old young, naive spirit and we left as grown ups, men and women with life long friendships,life partners, it made us who we are whether we like it or not.
Anonymous Young Girl
#71. I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.
Scott Ritter
#72. What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
Julia Roberts
#73. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#74. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
#75. And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
Emily Giffin
