Old Friends Quotes

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

Old friends are best.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.

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.

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.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

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.

There's no friends like the old friends.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

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

Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

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.

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

Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.

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.

Old friends are memories personified.

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.'

The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realise I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are my stable basis, my territory.

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

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

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

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.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

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.

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.

One thing I had on my side when it came to How to Make It in America is that I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker. Filming in New York... I'm so thankful and humbled by the whole experience. A lot of it takes place in old neighborhood; I'm an East Village kid, so I get to see my old friends from the neighborhood, my family still lives there.

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

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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

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

New friends can often have a better time together than old 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

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

It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.