Old Friends famous quotes
05-20-2025
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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.
-- Adam Kinzinger -
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.
-- Al Jarreau -
Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
-- Alfredo Di Stefano -
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 -
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
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.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
-- B. B. King -
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
-- Ben Harper -
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
-- Ben Hecht -
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
-- Bernard Baruch -
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 -
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.
-- Brian Jacques -
When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.
-- Bridget Hall -
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
-- Charles Kingsley -
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.
-- Charles Schumer -
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.
-- Constance Jablonski -
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 -
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.
-- Dorothy Gilman -
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
-- Elizabeth Strout -
(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 -
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.
-- Ethan Zuckerman -
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.
-- Francesca Lia Block -
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.
-- Francis Bacon -
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
-- Fred Ward -
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
-- Gelett Burgess -
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
-- George Eliot -
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
-- Hafez -
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
-- Henry Ford -
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
-- Ian Mckellen -
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting,
-- Ian Ziering -
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
-- J. D. Salinger -
Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
-- James Anthony Froude -
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
-- John Cusack -
You won't now tell people you're in your 60′s Indeed, you'll have to pretend, no end That you're close to being 70 Let me be the first to agree, old friend
-- John Walter Bratton -
No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
-- Julian Casablancas -
You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.
-- Kassia -
You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.
-- Kenny Rogers -
How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends...
-- Laurel Burch -
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
-- Lionel Blue -
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 -
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.
-- Lyle Lovett -
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 -
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.
-- Marilyn Kaytor -
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 -
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 -
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..
-- Naomi Ragen -
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 -
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.
-- Nina Campbell -
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 -
Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.
-- Phyllis George -
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.
-- Polly Bergen -
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
-- Rachel Field -
I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.
-- Rima Fakih -
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death
-- Robert Asprin -
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
-- Robert Breault -
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
-- Robert Burton -
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.
-- Robert Carlyle -
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.
-- Robert Goulet -
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 -
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
-- Sarah Orne Jewett -
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith -
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
-- Shackerley Marmion -
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
-- Sinclair Lewis -
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.
-- Tom Brokaw -
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
-- Ugo Betti -
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.
-- Victor Hugo -
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 -
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.
-- William Faulkner -
You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.
-- Wilson Rawls -
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.
-- Wilson Rawls -
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.
-- Gaspar Claus -
You don't want to be stopped. But it happens to everybody, like if you bump into an old friend or something. Luckily with an old friend, you can be like, "I'm having a diarrhea attack. Can I call you later?" And you can't really do that with a stranger.
-- Jay McCarroll -
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway -
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. -
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.
-- Panda Bear -
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
-- Unknown -
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.
-- Victor Rasuk -
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.
-- Wendy Lustbader -
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 -
I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.
-- Rhys Ifans -
The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.
-- Jodi Kantor -
I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch your step and not trust too willingly. Other than that I have stayed true to myself, kept my old friends, and the whole good deal.
-- Whitney Port
