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The best mirror is an old friend. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Many people consider me an old friend. -- Shirley Temple
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. -- Agatha Christie
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. -- John Leonard
No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. -- Julian Casablancas
Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed. -- James Caan
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. -- Ugo Betti
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. -- Barbara Tuchman
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
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
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
Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now. -- Simon Pegg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me. -- Ashton Shepherd
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
I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes. -- Joyce DeWitt
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. -- Allen Johnson
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. -- Russell Baker
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.' -- Louis C. K.
An old friend is a new house. -- George Herbert
The best mirror is an old friend. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
In old age, mirror is not a friend! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Treat each person as you would an old friend. -- Dalai Lama
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. -- George Herbert
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure. -- Anthony D. Williams
Time is a kind friend, he will make us old. -- Sara Teasdale
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over. -- Wilson Rawls
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend -- Mikhail Lermontov
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend. -- Katharine Butler Hathaway
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. -- B. B. King
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one. -- Tom Bodett
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -- George Santayana
Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend. -- Nina Campbell
Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends. -- Cate Blanchett
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. -- John Steinbeck
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see. -- Doris Lessing
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor]. -- Dalai Lama
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend. -- Charles Bukowski
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it. -- Alan Kay
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. -- Erma Bombeck
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend. -- Alfredo Di Stefano
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. -- Shirley Booth
Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice. -- Nikhil Sharda
It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving. -- Matt Labash
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. -- Samuel Johnson
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). -- J. D. Salinger
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My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. -- Doris Grumbach
My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old. -- Steven Wright
Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? -- Al Capp
Alex O'Loughlin is an old friend. Actually, when he first came to L.A., he stayed at my house. -- Martin Henderson
I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I'll be old without ever having been young. -- Anonymous
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time. -- Nicholas Sparks
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life. -- J. K. Rowling
The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli. -- Stevie Smith
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. -- Emily Giffin
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard -- Barbara Tuchman
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. -- Chavela Vargas
I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school. -- Margot Robbie
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways. -- Daniel Radcliffe
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
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy. -- Paul Auster
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
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
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
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. -- William Shakespeare
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief -- Euripides
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
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
(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
I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors. -- Jane Birkin
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance. -- Louis Kronenberger
Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo. -- Shane Claiborne
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.... -- William Butler Yeats
Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight -- Renee Ahdieh
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
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
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. -- W. C. Fields
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
The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before. -- A. J. Liebling
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
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
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. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish. -- Leigh Hunt
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Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire! -- Michel de Montaigne
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
The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears." -- Kate DiCamillo
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
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?' -- George Clooney
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least. -- Josh Turner
You won't now tell people you're in your 60"²s 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
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
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain. -- Frank Smythe
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

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