Friendship Old Friends 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. 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

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

John Webster

#4. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

D.E. Stevenson

#5. Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.

Tamora Pierce

#6. 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.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#7. Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

Paullina Simons

#8. Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.

Raymond E. Feist

#9. 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

#10. The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Mason Cooley

#12. To the return of old friends and to an unexpected but most welcome new one.

Veronica Rossi

#13. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

Amanda Hemingway

#14. 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

#15. For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead - still less because one had once liked them very much.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Gelett Burgess

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

Jonathan Swift

#19. Old friends are the best friends.

John Cameron Smith

#20. Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends.

Robert Breault

#21. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.

Lang Leav

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

Whitney Otto

#24. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Pat Conroy

#25. As you evolve, the friends and lovers you attract will be of a higher caliber. Embrace that fact and do not be afraid to leave old relations behind if they cease to be compatible with you.

Shane Eric Mathias

#26. 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

#27. He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

Michael Ende

#28. 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

#29. Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

Anthony D. Williams

#30. 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

#31. There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Jim Henson

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

John Selden

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.

Marilyn Yalom

#37. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Sylvia Plath

#38. 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

#39. Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace

Aaron Sorkin

#40. 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

#41. Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Mary Catherwood

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

Christopher Hitchens

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends.

Sanober Khan

#47. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Fredrik Backman

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#49. 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

#50. You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.

Kassia