Top 100 Old Friend Quotes
#1. This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.
Rebecca Raisin
#2. The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
Alfredo Di Stefano
#3. With wings like clear ice, the purple-black fairy flew down and pressed her tiny lips to Ilyenna's. Suddenly, the cold embraced her like an old friend. She felt as if winter's secrets were hidden somewhere deep inside her, waiting to be discovered.
Amber Argyle
#4. You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men.
Christine Feehan
#5. 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.
#6. 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.
William Banting
#7. An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Sometimes you can remember everything about an old friend, down to minor details about his behaviour, but for the life of you you can't picture his face.
Ryu Murakami
#10. At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
David Sax
#11. I ran into an old friend on the street and we started up a conversation. Four hours and six bottles of wine later, we decided the weather was just too unpredictable, and we parted ways.
Bauvard
#12. The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman
#14. Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.
Richard Widmark
#15. Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
Eric Maskin
#16. 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.
Edgar A. Guest
#17. shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
H.G.Wells
#18. I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.
Brandon Sanderson
#19. A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.
P.G. Wodehouse
#20. What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
Charles M. Schwab
#21. 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
#22. Oh, no. No.
He's going back to her apartment in the middle of the day.
He's going to try and ... and ...
My stomach heaves. Hello, darkness, my old friend.
Victoria Scott
#23. I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.
Michelle Yeoh
#24. 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
Osho
#25. But Nakata wasn't afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos, was an old friend, a part of him already.
Haruki Murakami
#26. There are few things more rejuvenating than sharing a belly-bursting laugh with an old friend.
Robin S. Sharma
#27. When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#30. I try to treat every person I meet like an old friend, and that gives me a real sensation of happiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#31. My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!
Bob Hope
#32. 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.
Bethenny Frankel
#33. Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
Alison Croggon
#34. Henry handed the record to his old friend, who draped it across his chest. His eyes closed as if he were listening to the music play somewhere,sometime long ago.
Jamie Ford
#35. He racked his brain, but it had gone. An old friend of his - Professor Francois Trimaud - had once said in a similar situation, 'leave it in the toaster and the answer will pop up.
Simon Rosser
#37. It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.
George Stroumboulopoulos
#38. Beta decay was ... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
Chien-Shiung Wu
#39. Among the older lovers, brain regions associated with anxiety were no longer active; instead, there was activity in the areas associated with calmness."1 Neurologically it's similar to the kind of love you feel for an old friend or a family member.
Aziz Ansari
#40. Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.
Melanie A. Gabbard
#41. Every night he comes thudding out of sleep drenched in sweat and staring into the dark. Something huge and scaly is twisting away into nothingness. There you are again, he thinks. There you are, old friend.
Peter Straub
#43. Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.
Nina Campbell
#44. Talking with him was like being with an old friend; making love with him was like finding her other half.
Jeannie Moon
#45. A real friend would have given you a drink by now."
"Looks like an old friend just did.
Debbie K. Lum
#46. Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.
Nikhil Sharda
#47. Usually I am the only subject I care to discuss with company. But when I'm getting reacquainted with an old friend, I really enjoy just sitting back and listening to them talk about me for a while.
Bauvard
#48. 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.
Jean Cocteau
#49. It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
Thomas Arnold
#50. I spent a month up in Seattle last fall cowriting and producing with Leo Nash, an old friend of mine, for his band's new album.
Kristen Proby
#51. You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#52. Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Lew Wasserman
#53. I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's like wrestling with an old friend, tumbling underneath then coming up for air.
Mark Smith
#54. RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision.
Stephen King
#55. Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.
Erin Hunter
#56. Stilgar put a hand on Idaho's shoulder. All men are interlopers, old friend.
Frank Herbert
#57. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
#59. He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.
Abigail Thomas
#60. I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
Charles Bukowski
#61. Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day.
Paul Auster
#62. An old friend of mine named Jean fell through a tear in her marriage and landed on her feet.
Catherine McNamara
#63. 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
#64. Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.
James Caan
#65. As an old friend of mine once said when I brought him some interesting brownies, 'You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes,'" she replied. "Haven't you read your Maimonides?
Gregory Maguire
#66. Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed.
Toba Beta
#67. You know the funny thing about the end of the world, my old friend? We always talk about it as if it hasn't happened already. Because of course the world has ended many times. And when it ends for some people, other people report it in the papers or on TV as a new beginning.
Bee Ridgway
#68. Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. you can't find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you're not enough, never enough never ever enough .
Tahereh Mafi
#69. A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
Nick Mancuso
#71. I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.
Hugh Hefner
#72. Just pick one?" Nicholas repeated slowly, raising his eyes heavenwards. "You are aware we are not shopping for horseflesh but attempting to find you a future duchess? Do keep that in mind, old friend.
Rachel Van Dyken
#73. A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable's blood on my knuckles and I swore I could taste whiskey surging out of my stomach into my throat, like an old friend who has come back in a time of need.
James Lee Burke
#75. If Preston Brooks with his attack had brought him near death, was it not his old friend Appleton who had observed, "When good Americans die they go to Paris"?
David McCullough
#76. He said, 'Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.' Then Robin's falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars.
T.H. White
#77. Blossom time, drunk together, banishing spring sorrow;
drunk, we broke off flowering limbs, counters for our rounds of wine.
Suddenly I remembered my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky:
by my reckoning, today he must have reached Liang-chou.
Bai Juyi
#78. An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.
Jim Hayes
#79. The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
William O. Douglas
#81. Suck it, Entropy. We have an appointment, my old friend, but not today.
Colson Whitehead
#82. Treat each person as you would an old friend.
Dalai Lama
#83. 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.
Robert Jordan
#84. There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I
David Leadbeater
#85. (He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.
Erin Hunter
#86. Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.
Nash Buckingham
#88. I tell you, old friend, I'd rather be stuck here in a Strander burrow than blowing smoke rings in Glipwood, where the Fangs spit and howl and kill our spirits. At least we're here because we choose to be. We're here out of bravery and not cowardice.
Andrew Peterson
#89. Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?
James Joyce
#90. 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
#93. Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend."
"And I to see you dead.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#94. The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
Yoko Ono
#95. My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.
Margot Asquith
#96. 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.
Markus Zusak
#97. There was something new in his expression, something Vaelin had never seen before and couldn't name. In later years he would see it in the faces of a thousand men and know it as an old friend: fear.
Anthony Ryan
#98. 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.
Dalai Lama
#99. Love ... it complicates our games, old friend, it insinuates itself, disrupting the most carefully laid plans and unmanning the most disciplined heart.
Juliet Marillier
#100. Hello darkness, my old friend," Lana half sang, half whispered. "I'm coming to talk with you again.
Michael Grant
